Re: sex and the single meme

From: Philip Jonkers (philipjonkers@prodigy.net)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 08:13:51 GMT

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Subject: Re: sex and the single meme
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    Wade:
    > >[Sexual] reproduction in memes may involve taking up meme-stuff from the
    > >environment, from viruses, from designs, or from active mingling. The
    > >addition of memetic variability is random and depends on the correct
    > >binding receptors in the host.

    Joe:
    > Mutation is mightily influenced by context.

    And often heuristic instead of purely random as many engineers and
    computer programmers will attest.

    Philip.

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