Re: when is a meme selfish?

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:52:34 -0400

Subject: Re: when is a meme selfish?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:52:34 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

>So you agree that the information encoded on the rock is the same as the
>meme?

To a cargo cult, a Toastmaster wide-slot one-touch toaster is an altar.
There is no information in the object itself.

- Wade

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