Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:26:04 -0700
From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
Dear Raymond,
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I was thinking more in terms of a C that becomes independantly transmissible but is also transmissible by A and B(or just A to simplify), but separating out C as phenotypic effect before recategorizing it as a meme is important.
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It is also confusing. That's one reason why I am leery of the genetic analogy. Memes and genes are so *very* different. If C is a meme, but is also an effect of meme A or of memes A and B, then we have a relationship among those memes that has no parallel among genes.
Best,
Bill
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