RE[2]: virus: Hosts

Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Sat, 12 Oct 1996 19:11:05 -0400

> The two previously posted responses to this question (including the
>one quoted above) seem to suggest that a genetic basis operates in meme
>selection. Do we have any hard evidence to support this, as opposed to
>cultural- or experiential-based selection?
> Noctem

And isn't that _the_ question? I would hold that memes themselves are
entirely culturally based and augmented. (And that science is as close as
we get to a cultureless perceptual apparatus....)

Is not culture a 'culture' for memes?

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