Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 05:16:46 GMT

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    Hi Philip Jonkers -

    >You may say therefore, that I am in the memes-are-
    >everywhere camp:

    I had that sussed quite a while ago.

    >Anything cultural qualifies as meme, provided
    >transmittable (this addition even seems
    >tautological to me).

    So, let's get rid of culture. Seems a useless attachment to an otherwise
    happily ubiquitous process that only gets mistaken for it by even the
    most observant.

    - Wade

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