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>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 20:47:53 +1100
> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au> Re: Words and memesReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Ted wrote
>Snip.......
>>If "meme" is taken to be equivalent to "idea," then it becomes culturally
>>universalized and ceases to have meaning. On the other hand, if "meme" is
>>equated with "learned behavior," then it becomes biologically universalized
>>and also ceases to have meaning. Any term that can be collapsed into
>>another term is just an abstraction. It has no existence outside of the
>>word we've made up for it.
>>
>>Ted
>>
>>
>Hi Ted
>Good points. What if 'meme' is simply a word signifying a strand of
>cultural information which resides in cultural artefacts (even a hammer)
>which enables the replication of the culture?
>Jeremy
>
I see memes as encodings of meaningful information that are replicated for fitness reasons. They may be encoded in neural nets, behavior or artifacts, and many are encoded in all three.
>
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