Subject: Re: Meme pools~drosophila
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 97 20:12:49 -0400
From: Wade "T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>I'm defending the physical analogy between genes and memes. They are
>analogous systems residing in different frequency domains.
You got to start somewhere- although 'frequency domains'? - sounds a
little newagey to me....
> From this
>perspective, it is not hard to see how computers will fit into the
>picture, but I'll leave that for another day.
Are computers not the drosophila we seek? Or the programs thereof? Do we
have something complex enough to be studied as a memetic set yet?
Or will we have to grow our own fruitflies?
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