Re: i-memes and m-memes

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:52:29 -0400

Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:52:29 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

>They are
>items of information, *encoded* in the brain just as they are *encoded*
>in behaviour and artefacts -- the actual encodings are very different of
>course, but they are certainly encoded in all cases.

Ah- I agree with this. I think I always have. Sometimes things accepted
by my intuition are really false, though, so I'm always wary.

There was enough of a lap with 'live' and 'encoded' to confound me.

- Wade

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