Re: i-memes and m-memes

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:08:11 -0400

Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:08:11 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

On 08/31/99 04:59 the inimitable Robin Faichney made this comment =8B

>What's rediscovered is not the meme, but the phenomenon that inspired
>it. Yes, it's the same meme that is inspired, but that is due to
>background similarities in the discoverers, i.e. *that* decoding system
>is *not* lost.

Yes- I agree with this- seems Robin and I met back aways and didn't
recognize the other.

- Wade

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