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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:29:58 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: "Francesca S. Alcorn" <unicorn@greenepa.net>
Subject: Re: memetics and genetics
> >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.
Why does it have to be brain-stored? Why not book-stored? A
photocopier could be a form of "asexual" reproduction - producing no
new variations, whereas the brain is the arena of sexual reproduction
of ideas. Computers would fall into a sort of a gray area, since
they to can manipulate information. Or is it the old "If a tree
falls in the woods and no one hears it" scenario. If I publish a
book and no one reads it......
Frankie
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