> In message <199808011733.MAA10841@castaway.uwf.edu>, Joe E. Dees
> <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> writes
> >If everything is a meme, then there is nothing a meme is not, and
> >therefore the term "meme" is rendered meaningless, for it cannot be
> >defined by comparison or contrast. If we can't say what a meme is
> >NOT, we can't say what it IS.
>
> Did I say "everything"? Hey, this keyboard is no mere meme!
> (But the idea of it, that I just conveyed to you, is.)
>
> (When I type about my keyboard, is it self-referential?)
> --
> Robin
Is a meme then what semioticions would call a sign and casual
conversers would call an idea? What about their evolutionary,
competitive, co-operative and propagative properties? Are you
claiming that all signs and/or ideas possess these? Just curious.
Joe
P. S. This sentence refers both to itself and its author, therefore
referring them to each other, as well as to its reader, who is now
referred both to and by them both, and to the ideas of reference and
number, comprising eight references in all (heehee).