Subject: RE: memes and dancing
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:21:10 -0500
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
On 12/21/99 09:46, Bruce Jones said this-
>If it is nature then there is strong evidence available for
>a meme for dancing.
And many, including myself, would say, 'if it is nature, then there is
strong evidence for a genetic determinant' and we would leave memes out
of it entirely.
Yes?
A prime debate here is whether memes are necessary for anything at all.
At the moment, I am decidedly on the side of those who say they ain't.
You wanna dance? Dance.
- Wade
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