Re: Memetic as an Adjective

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 09:00:57 GMT

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    >Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:48:14 +1100
    > memetics@mmu.ac.uk Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au> Re: Memetic as an AdjectiveReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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    >At 10:52 PM 5/02/02 -0800, Joe wrote:
    >> Some people here have been troubled by the difficulties they hare
    >having in defining the noun 'meme'. Rather than attempt to isolate such a
    >definition in its purity, why not use the term 'memetic' as an adjective,
    >to indicate the quality of replicability of an idea, a behavior, a message
    >or an artifact? Then the replicability differential can come into play,
    >and without defining meme as a thing rather than a process, we can speak of
    >some things being more memetic, i.e., more propagationally successful, than
    >others. There are probably as many problems as there are solutions with
    >this approach; I merely toss it out there to be mulled over for strengths
    >and weaknesses.
    >>>
    >>
    >Hey Joe
    >Don't get too hung up about all the definitions of 'meme', there are many
    >more definitions of the noun 'culture', and we all still make good use of
    >it. Besides you have defined the noun by explaining the adjective and, as I
    >see it, you are still defining a 'meme' as an idea whereas I define it as a
    > sequence (or part of a sequence) of codified cultural information.
    >Jeremy
    >
    As a *replicable* idea, in minds, artifacts, or behavior.
    >
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