Re: Meme vs. meme-vehicle

Dr I Price (PEWLEYFORT@compuserve.com)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 03:58:56 -0400

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 03:58:56 -0400
From: Dr I Price <PEWLEYFORT@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Meme vs. meme-vehicle
To: "INTERNET:memetics@mmu.ac.uk" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

Mark

>>IP I would still include the code within the brain as part of the
phenotype
>which the meme creates for its own ends,

MM Why continue thinking of memes as ghosts with life cycles? <

I wasn't aware of thinking of them that way. 'Vehicles' have life cycles.=

Replicators are, in principle immortal, unless selection favours an
alternative.

And yes I liked the poem.

If

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