RE: Modes of transmission

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 16:32:04 GMT

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    Hi Joe Dees -

    >One can read the Bible or the Koran and adopt the memes of those religions
    >without exactly, or even closely, replicating the behaviors of any other
    >believers, or even meeting any.

    So, a thought experiment involving a literate hermit, with a copy of the
    Bible...?

    - Wade

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