Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:14:07 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
In-Reply-To: <001401bef26c$b49f96a0$fdb606d1@sbosmr.ma.cable.rcn.com>
In message <001401bef26c$b49f96a0$fdb606d1@sbosmr.ma.cable.rcn.com>,
Aaron Agassi <agassi@erols.com> writes
>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.
I don't think there's any point in calling it a meme, even a total
failing one, when it has never entered a brain. Meme failures are those
that fail to make it from one brain to another. To say that every thing
is a meme is to make the word meaningless.
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