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Vincent
but couldn't the bank teller or others present interpret the instruction, internalise it and express it at some point in time, thereby making it a meme?
regards
mark
Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>
> A bank robber telling the teller to hand him the money isn't
>conveying a meme, he's conveying an instruction. Memes are things that are
>replicated. An instruction is not in and of itself something that is
>replicated, it is something that is either carried out, or not carried out.
>After all the teller is not imitating the robber by giving him all the
>money.
>
> Vincent
>
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