From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: skeptical anthropologists
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:02:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: <F6dzZiAcHA13EwvK@faichney.demon.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 2:03 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: skeptical anthropologists
>
>
> In message <19990906155325.AAA17389@camail2.harvard.edu>, Wade T.Smith
> <wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
> >>due to the scepticism of the anthropologists present -- there was no
> >>mention whatsoever of any cultural replicator other than the meme.
> >
> >Well, has there ever _been_ mention of a 'cultural replicator'
> before the
> >'meme' was presented as a possible mechanism?
>
> What I had in mind there was Richard's "mind-viruses". Neither they,
> nor any other non-memetic cultural replicator, was mentioned by anyone
> at the conference.
>
> >The 'meme' seems specious and unnecessary
>
> I don't think "the meme" is necessary, just fascinating.
At best, useful.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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