Re: Measuring Memes

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:21:34 -0400

Subject: Re: Measuring Memes
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:21:34 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

On 6/15/99 11:44, Mark M. Mills said this-

>Your use of the term 'quanta' suggests a nuclear physics model.

Gack, no.... I could just as well call a gene a quanta of biology. I only
use the term as representing a finite undivisible unit- "The smallest
amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently."

I was more interested in the model of where we can draw divisions within
perception and behavior analogous to energy levels in physics, and
admittedly, only threw out my thought as a round-table starting point.

- Wade

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