From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 03:59:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: <2CDFE2C8F598D21197C800C04F911B2034936A@DELTA.newhouse.akzonobel.nl>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Gatherer, D. (Derek)
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:49 AM
> To: 'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'
> Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> >> Derek:
> > So when replication occurs, what do we call that thing that has
> > replicated?
>
> Aaron:
> Successful.
>
> Derek:
> I was looking for a noun, not an adjective. What noun would you use to
> describe something that successfully replicates????
I'd use a noun to denote what a thing is, distinguishing it from other
things, not for what has been done with said thing that has been done with
other different things. A thing that self replicates is a self replicator.
Probably an animal or a plant. But memetic replication is that of a passive
replicatee, memetically replicated by the active agent of consciousness.
Even behavior, which is an activity, is at best a memetic transmission. An
observer, a replicater, perceives, receptively, and replicates the meme,
just as with any other phenomena or objects. Memes are passive parasites,
anywhere outside the mind. There are no memetic replicators.
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