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On 28 Jan 2002, at 15:35, Wade Smith wrote:
> Termites make mounds.
Indeed, and termites have genes too. So the cultural outcome is a
result of genes.
Mounds select certain termites and termites build mounds. See
any similarity?
> And that's pretty genetic. Unless you want to call it memetic,
It's not memetic because the termites don't copy the design of a
mound from other cultures (as far as i know).
> > Philip:
> > it is the
> > current gene-pool which build brains that restrict meme-creativity
> > potential.
>
> And this is an interesting comment. What leads you to think we
> are being restricted in our meme-creativity? What potential
> memes do you see that have their actualities missing?
It's actually that what you can't think of. To name anything would
fall into the "meme-creativity potential" category.
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