Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:52:18 +0200
From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Aaron:
> But no non-replicators. No more
> than there are losers in Vegas! There are only patrons who have not yet
> found their winning table!
>
> Derek:
>
> well, that last sentence shows the untenability of your thesis. Of course
> there are losers at Vegas!!! Are you advertising Vegas???
Aaron:
No. I was making a facetious expression of a serious point. A poor choice in
memetic engineering where irony is absent.
Derek:
Yes, I was joking too. But to return to the irony-free issue, the question
is "what replicates?" To state that everything is a potential replicator
does not help, because we want to know what is actually the case, not what
is potential.
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