Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:19:00 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Memetics is a way of thinking about events and relationships, not a
>description of individual things.
(Ah, memetics is a meme-plex....)
Sounds a lot like that old thing 'philology'-
* The study of linguistic change over time in language or in a particular
language or language family, sometimes including the reconstruction of
unattested forms of earlier stages of a language. *
- with 'culture' (or 'behavior', which seem to be the same thing here
more often than not) replacing language.
Yes, no?
- Wade, who ain't arguing- he likes philology....
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