>Therefore, when I define the class "meme" as a piece of information in a
>mind that influences events such that copies of itself get created in other
>minds, I am not insisting that each member of the class actually get
copied.
>It's enough that it's the kind of thing that is structured to behave in
that
>way.
This is a very useful description, but forms a very useless hypothesis.
(Another important distiction, while we're making them.)
One reason why Lenonardo da Vinci is remembered where Roger Bacon
is not, is because while Bacon conceived of the airplane 300 years before
da Vinci, da Vinci actually drew out plans and Bacon only predicted that
plans for planes would or could be drawn.
-Prof. Tim