From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 18:20:30 -0400
In-Reply-To: <19990829215731.AAA25864@camail2.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.69]>
Allow me to clarify:
A microscopic dust particle in a dark cave never seen by any living thing is
a meme, but one with major replicative disadvantages.
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Wade T.Smith
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 5:54 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> >This convinces me that rather than recognize anything at all
> what so ever as
> >non-memetic, we may be better off speaking of it's replicative failure.
>
> But, it is only capable of replicative failure or success within its own
> culture, or within a culture with some correspondences, yes? Outside of
> this matrix it is useless, except forensically. Maybe it would be better
> to speak of memes that allowed cross-culturalization- unlike specific
> craftsmen's tools, the turn of the screw- unlike the Shakers' severe
> celibacy, go forth and multiply. Those memes, I suspect, that are most
> close to the core of their genetic foundation, by imitation?
>
> The best-laid meme of mice and men is the one that is so easy anybody can
> do it, and so much fun that everybody will....
>
> - Wade
>
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