RE: i-memes and m-memes

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:12:41 -0400

Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:12:41 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

On 8/30/99 14:36, Aaron Agassi said this-

>Potential meme is a bad concept. I only hope that I can sterilize the
>idiotic notion! Potentiality is assumed. Dormancy is the norm.

If 'potential meme' is a bad concept (and I agree), then to what degree
of badness does 'dormancy' not descend?

Dormancy, seems to me, needs sterilization just as much.

Or the sleeper needs to awake.

- Wade

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