From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: The information theoretic view Was: JOM
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:52:56 -0700
Richard wrote:
>Memes, and
>genes, use all kinds of material and processes outside of themselves to
>facilitate their replication. That does not change the fact that they have
>a particular location that, if they aren't there, nothing happens. For
>memes, this is a mind. For genes, it is a germ cell. The fact that the
>cycle of genetic reproduction can involve two people mating in an airplane
>does not mean that the genes are "encoded" in the airplane.
But it does mean that the genes are encoded in gametes. (You didn't
overlook that aspect of the germ line again, did you?)
-Tim
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