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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:35:03 -0800
From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Abstractism
<I'm rapidly approaching the conclusion that no two people can agree on
what
the term "meme" refers to. >
< So the state of the art right now is an undefined meme that
brings about a broad range of behavior. Am I wrong?>
<Grant >
Looks like that's it in a nutshell to me.
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:18:43 -0000
From: "Price, Ilfryn" <I.Price@shu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Abstractism
>From: Grant Callaghan [mailto:grantc4@hotmail.com]
SNIP
>I'm rapidly approaching the conclusion that no two people can
>agree on what
>the term "meme" refers to.
<Which helps the 'meme' replicate. I understand there is research in
press (Wheeler) which identifies 9 different communities of scientists
using variations in their interpretatation of 'gene'. Signifiers get
replicated but do not have to show fidelity of 'signified' (as I have
asserted before)>
<If>
Because people have their own interpretations of what a word such as meme
means it also contributes to the memetic drift that memes undergo.
Steve
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