Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 13:02:45 -0400
From: Paul Marsden <PMarsden@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Meme Extinction
To: "INTERNET:memetics@mmu.ac.uk" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> if you can "observe directly" a meme THEN IT IS NOT EXTINCT!
>That's it exactly. My point was that the very act of studying a meme
means
>that it cannot be extinct, because by studying it we give it a host mind=
,
>and thus the meme lives.
So are you contending that all statements about x include x itself?
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