One characteristic of a meme is that it exists so as
to replicate itself. Even assuming that the memeset
within which the meme manifests is different from
one structure to another... what is to keep us from
localizing the meme proper in another form such that
its consistency is noted in its transmission from
one set of cells to another?
For example, assume that two sets of different cells
produce a behavior which is reducible to a specific
chemical pattern traceable from one set of cells to
the other (or that the behavior is traceable...
though that area seems reserved for evolutionary
biologists and psychologists rather than memeticists
according to the current thinking on this list).
Anyway, if this chemical pattern is the same from
one person to another, and if THIS is found to be
the meme (which replicates itself from one host to
another); then, why remain focused on the difference
and demand that THIS represent the meme?
B. Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
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