From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Not a comprehensive theory
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 03:58:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: <19990802073928.12530.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Lord Zarquon
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 3:39 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Not a comprehensive theory
>
<snip>
>
> As an illustration, consider the meme for removing pickles from
> hamburgers. No doubt, one of the reasons people perform this ritual is
> because they have seen other people do it (memetic transmission). But
> part of the explanation must surely be that pickles cause some people
> to experience unpleasant qualia (i.e. it tastes bad). So, there cannot
> be a purely memetic explanation of the 'pickle removal' behavior.
Perhaps the flavor of the pickle is a meme. Can memes originate Empirically?
<snip>
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