RE: virus: And what is a meme that we sh

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 9 Feb 98 07:40:27 -0500

>Consider a 'dead language' like say the Cretan Minoan B, which has been
>entirely forgotten, but is subsequently deciphered, centruries later. Would
>not a poem, advertising jingle, or any other accepted meme form written in
>the dead language, have existed dormant outside of any mind?

No, and again, why should it? And in this case, what is really deciphered?

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