Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:40:20 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Dawkins' Mutation Test for Replicators
In-Reply-To: <19990827143113.29788.qmail@hotmail.com>
In message <19990827143113.29788.qmail@hotmail.com>, James McComb
<jamesmccomb@hotmail.com> writes
>Presumably, Dawkins changed his
>definition because the meme is a replicator, and he used the mutation test
>to determine that cultural artefacts and behaviors are not true replicators.
Surely artefacts and behaviours pass this test with flying colours! The
copying of them as is, is ubiquitous.
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