Somebody pinch me! I think Brodie just tried to use an argument-from-authority to support his memes!
-Prof. Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:55 PM
Subject: RE: virus: ESS's and Punc. Equil.
>I'm using Blackmore's definition. I don't consider the old memetic lexicon
>authoritative.
>
>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
>Of David McFadzean
>Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:26 PM
>To: virus@lucifer.com
>Subject: Re: virus: ESS's and Punc. Equil.
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 5:25 PM
>
>
>> nonproductive. They should come up with a different word if they don't
>like
>> meme (mental self-replicator), memeplex (cultural self-replicator), or
>virus
>> of the mind (same but with more negative connotation
>
>I was under the impression that the difference between meme and memeplex
>was one of part-whole or component-aggregate, not mental vs. cultural.
>A memeplex is a "set of mutually-assisting memes which have co-evolved a
>symbiotic relationship".
<http://virus.lucifer.com/memlex.html#MEME-COMPLEX>
>
>David
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