Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:05:33 -0400
From: Dr I Price <PEWLEYFORT@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a Meme? Reprise and paper - comments welcome
To: "INTERNET:memetics@mmu.ac.uk" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Bill
>If this is what you have in mind, well, we don't need
memes of any sort to emergent behavior. All we need are the various rule=
s
stored locally in the brains of individuals.<
Whilst fully agreeing your 'set of rules' to emrgent behaviour [and bird
flocking is the obvious example] what is the source of the rules. Here I =
am
back to the memes to unwritten rules to emergent and maintained
organisations that is the basis of my view of memes, which those new to t=
he
list can find from the URL below.
If Price
http://members.aol.com/ifprice/ifresch.html
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