RE: when is a meme selfish?

Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:54:41 -0700

From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: when is a meme selfish?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:54:41 -0700
In-Reply-To: <LtwAMJA4DXx3Ew+9@faichney.demon.co.uk>

Robin wrote:

<<in what way does the information you concede is encoded on the
rock differ from the meme?>>

It differs in two ways that I see immediately:
1. Different encoding
2. Different location.

In fact the only thing that is identical is the information itself.

Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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