To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Raymond Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com>
Subject: Re: memetics and genetics
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:29:16 -0500
>My adaption would be:
>
>Memes are the self-transmittable mechanism by which the
>synaptic connections in a brain are altered.
>
>Rob Geurtsen
>
>
>Joshua 'Glok' Sutubra wrote:
>
>> I propose this solution;
>>
>> Memes are the transmittable mechanism by which the
>> synaptic connections in a brain are altered.
>>
Rabies or mad cow disease would both be memes under these definitions
Along similar lines is Aaron Lynch's definition:
>MEME: (pronounced 'meem') 1. A self-spreading thought, idea, attitude,
belief, or other brain-stored item of learned culture. 2. (Technical usage)
A memory item, or portion of an organism's neurally-stored information,
whose occurrence depended critically on causation by prior occurrence of the
same memory item in one or more other organisms' nervous systems.
>
Slightly more specific, this definition avoids the problem suggested above.
Raymond O. Recchia
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