From: Hans-Cees Speel <hanss@zondisk.sepa.tudelft.nl>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 16:10:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Defining Memes [was Memes, territory and odors]
> Agreed. I am asking first for clarity of definition so we know which of
> the three or more we are taliking about. I want to understand meme
> replication. I also want to distinguish that which 'self-replicates' from
> that which is copied/replicated in the replication process. The gene, as I
> understand it, is programmed by its molecular structure to self replicate
> given a particular context. What is the equivalent auto-replicator in this
> memetic replication process we keep discussing
>
hmmm, this seems to b to simple for me. We must be careful not to
talk about 'the gene' in this way. There are genes that code for
replication structures in the cell, yes. But not all genes, or rather
most genes have nothing to do with these structures. So most genes
are not coding for self-replication. They are replicated by the
structures that other genes code for.
just to be precise...
hc
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