Re: Modes of transmission

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 05:09:18 GMT

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    Hi Joe Dees -

    >But if this requires displacing the storage and mutation site of the meme
    >(the cognitive environment), then it simplifies at the cost of distortion
    >and misrepresentation.

    No, I don't think the cognitive environment is displaced. At least, I'm
    not making any plans to displace it.

    - Wade

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