From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:42:20 -0700
Bill wrote:
>(However, I don't think that what Raymond is talking about amounts
>to transmitting meme C. Memes A and B are transmitted, and C is
>their effect.)
Richard replied:
>I agree with you if birds do not learn by imitation. If it were humans,
>though, C would be a meme, right?
No, Richard, it'd be a "mind-virus".
;-)
-Tim
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