>> It seems that a meme - in transit (on paper, e-mail, some type of
non-thinking
>> host) would be similar to the DNA that is not in use, or DNA fragments
without the
>> tools to assemble the fragments until in the mind. Just a thought.
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>> Bill Roh
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>Or like an RNA virus - it's in a completely different format.
ARRRRRGH!!!
Are you aware that by using the only model you know of for how a replicator
might work (DNA) and applying it to a different sphere (information and
ideas), you are doing the same thing that the Greeks did when they applied
the only model they knew for motion (intelligent intentionality) to the
movements of the planets?
-Prof. Tim,
off to find the meme for the God of War in the night sky.
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>> Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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>> > Richard Brodie wrote:
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>> > > Memes are replicators in minds. The term "replicator" is used to
denote any
>> > > information that participates in evolution by natural selection.
These
>> > > definitions are widely accepted in the field, so it doesn't help much
to
>> > > propose new definitions for existing terms.
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>> > > Richard Brodie
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>> > I can almost live with that, but what about information that resides in
>> > a computer or book? Does that information then become a potential meme
>> > until it is replicated into a mind? If the answer to that is yes than I
>> > think that's a decent definition.
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>> > Nate Hall
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>Nathan Russell
>frussell@frontiernet.net
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>"It is now time for the human race to enter the Solar System"
>-Dan Quayle on the possibility of a manned mission to Mars
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>(Well, Danny Boy, the rest of us are already here, but we'll wait for you)
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