From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: memes and dancing
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:59:23 -0800
In-Reply-To: <19991223040409.AAA1753@camail2.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.135]>
Memetics has very little to do with finding a quantum unit. Indeed, you
could say the same for genetics. Genes and memes are both conceptual tools.
Genes are unspecified, fuzzy collections of nucleic material. Memes are even
fuzzier collections of mental programming or learning. The power of both
models is in understanding that the future is created by the force of
self-replication and the competition among self-replicating entities
(descent with variation).
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
-----Original Message-----
From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
Of Wade T.Smith
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 7:59 PM
To: Memetics Discussion List
Subject: RE: memes and dancing
>"Viral marketing" -- deliberately
>engineering self-replicating word-of-mouth advertising -- is creating huge
>customer bases for new companies at low cost with earth-shattering
>effectiveness.
And what does any of this have to do with finding a quantum unit for
culture? Seems to me the fact that a sucker is born every minute is old
news....
- Wade
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