Re: ply to Grant

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 12:45:53 GMT

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    Hi Jeremy Bradley -

    >In my memetic ontology memes are simply the
    >coded information which enables the culture to continue.

    Unless someone is _performing_ the memes, there is no continuity of
    culture. We try to know what Egypt was like.

    - Wade

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