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From: Philip Jonkers
> What the guys in the artifact-behavior meme-camp argue
> is that it is wrong to speak of memes residing in the
> brain for no other reason that they don't fit with any
> of the current definitions. They are undetectable,
> highly personal and non-uniform in stored form.
While it's true that no one has ever found a meme in the brain, no one has
ever found a thought or a feeling or a memory or a perception or a desire or
any other mental function in the brain. Clearly, memes exist in minds. The
problem is trying to reduce mind to brain.
Ted
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