Re: HEA report on religion and mental health

Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:48:48 -0700

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:48:48 -0700
From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: HEA report on religion and mental health
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

All:

Chris:

Religion is a phenotype. Your [Derek's] comments read as if you think it is a genotype.

Bill:

This brings me back to a question I asked a few weeks ago. What (if anything) is a memetic phenotype? That seems to be a harder question than "what is a meme?"

Maybe it would help to be specific.

1) Is religion a memetic phenotype?

2) If so, what make it so?

Best,

Bill

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