From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:04:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <lua7sLAftky3EwS5@faichney.demon.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 5:14 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> 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.
Then all the more so one that never infected even a single mind. But then,
dormancy is the norm.
>To say that every thing
> is a meme is to make the word meaningless.
Not at all. There are meaningful things to be said about everything.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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