>At 01:00 PM 06/11/96 +0000, Martin Traynor wrote:
>>self-preservation meme/instinct (BTW, is there a term for the grey
>>area between memes and genes? i.e. where a tendency is partly due to
>>the nature of the human beast and partly due to their memetic makeup).
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>I haven't seen a term for it, but I was searching for one in a recent
>post about language. I believe this could be an important areas of
>inquiry, and an illucidation of the concepts could prove to be a
>very valuable contribution to the field of memetics. In the absence
>of established terminology perhaps we should invent some. An obvious
>possibility is to just combine the words for the two concepts:
>which do you like better mene (menetics) or geme (gemetics)? I have
>a slight preference for the former. Any other suggestions?
I don't get it. Is there any behavior that DOESN'T fall into this
category?
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.206.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Do you know what a "meme" is?
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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