RE: Selfish memes?

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 00:15:38 GMT

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: Selfish memes?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:15:38 -0500
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    Good enough -- many thanks, Wayne.

    Lawrence

     
    > This is apparently from The Selfish Gene, somewhere...
    >
    > "Of course," Dawkins writes, "the personification of the gene is not to
    > be taken literally ... Personification is sometimes a useful device, and
    > for critics to accuse us of taking it literally is almost as stupid as
    > taking it literally in the first place. Physicists are not literally
    > charmed by their particles and the critic who would so accuse them is a
    > tiresome pedant."
    >
    > - since it was mentioned in a review of the same at
    > http://www.salon.com/21st/books/1998/12/22books2.html
    >
    > - Wade

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