Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Rhodes <proftim@speakeasy.org>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Society as Extended Memeotype (from: RE: JASSS Critical Review...)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19990505125433.00c84044@popmail.mcs.net>
Taken completely out of context, Aaron Lynch wrote:
> In any case, if the whole thing is
> really about alliances and loyalties, and the emotions invested in them,
> then nothing I can say mathematically or scientifically will change that.
Now, what does memetics have to say about the role of "alliances, loyalties, and
emotional investment" in the propigation of one set of memes over another? How
do we quantify the role social networks play in the replication of memes?
-Tim Rhodes
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