Re: virus: One More Time, From the Top... (was: Extrocranial Memes)
Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:21:07 +0100
I objected to the use of the term "mind" in the definition
of "meme". Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com> replied
>Keep thinking about it and you'll likely come to the same conclusion that
>Dawkins, Dennett, Plotkin and I did. The reason we use "meme" to refer to
>replicators in a mind (only) is that it is only the interaction of the
>information with the mind that produces changes in behavior that go out and
>spread the meme. And selfishly, we are most interested in ourselves and how
>our minds work.
Haven't gotten around to looking up the others yet, but in
The Extended Phenotype, Dawkins talks about "brains", not
"minds".
--
Robin