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> RE: the earth revolves around the sunDate: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:43:10 -0500
> "Wade T. Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Hi Joe Dees -
>
>>Memes are semantic (meaning or significance bearing) entities, and any
>>stance that does not recognize this will be unable to model its object.
>
>I don't think the stance of behavior-only memes denies that, at all.
>
>I just don't call the meanings memes.
>
>I call them meanings. Or intentions. Or hoped-for understandings.
>
>The meme is an attempt to express this to someone else.
>
No, the meme is that which is communicated, and the selfsame meme may be communicated by means of a variety of differing behaviors.
>
>- Wade
>
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