From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:58:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <q1jI6pA7q$y3EwDw@faichney.demon.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:55 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> In message <19990831121015.AAA29485@camail2.harvard.edu>, Wade T.Smith
> <wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
> >>What is a "memetic artefact"? The
> >>memes are the song similarities that occur due to imitation.
> >
> >Well, the artefacts used in a Rossini overture are violins and bassoons
> >and cellos.... The imitative facility of a bird is not part of this
> >argument- the ability to enlarge this imitative capacity is. And I, for
> >one, just don't think the birds got what we got, and never will.
>
> But Wade, this list is for discussion of memetics, not "what makes us
> special". Nobody else here cares about your little pet project. To the
> best of our present knowledge, birds do host memes, and by any
> definition I know (but especially those that mention memes) have a
> culture. So it's not like our culture. So what? Who thought it was?
Arguably, the differences between species will have memetic impact.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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