Subject: Re: Adventure Memes/Duration Memes
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 98 08:26:32 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>> Further, if this is the case, would this not also confer an advantage upon
>> meme-complexes which, in part, re-order the socal stucture into a better
>> vehicle for the spread of memes with a similar nature to their own?
>>
>> -Tim Rhodes
>
>that seems an interesting point to me..
And indeed, would not be far from a memetic definition of culture... yes?
If we ever wanted one, that is....
I also urge everyone here to read Consilience, by E. O. Wilson,
especially the Gene and Culture chapter, for his take on memes and things
generally memetic.
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