Re: Words and memes

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 02:43:32 GMT

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    From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
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    >Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:22:28 -0500
    > Re: Words and memes "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >
    >On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 04:05 , Joe Dees wrote:
    >
    >> I have little to add to or disagree with the balance of your post,
    >> except to assert that memes and humans coevolutionarily 'use' each
    >> other; the first blindly and naturalistically, the second intentionally
    >> and culturally
    >
    >Very little about nature is blind, even in any real sense.
    >
    >And, quite possibly, very little about culture need be intentional.
    >
    >Although, yeah, memes are cultural, and the humans who make them are
    >natural.
    >
    >So far.
    >
    >But, like observer and observed, the line is murky.
    >
    Nature does not intentionally mutate genes with an 'eye' toward the future, but people do frequently intentionally mutate memes in order to improve their replicatory coefficient.
    >
    >
    >- Wade
    >
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