RE: virus: Experimental memes. was:Random thoughts & more poor

Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 05:29:53 -0700

<<This gets away from the ill-defined and implicitly
subjective nature of the claim that memes are "in
minds". It is also rather close to Dawkins' original
description and example set in The Selfish Gene.>>

Dawkins recanted that definition in The Extended Phenotype. Memes are in
minds like software is in computers because that's where it has an effect on
anything. Sure, we loosely call a CD-ROM of MS Office "software", but
without computers running it it really isn't interesting.

Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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