RE: virus: The One or the Many?

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Sun, 19 Oct 97 21:23:02 -0400


>I still think
>that you are missing some basic behaviors which are memetically determined
>for us and the animals: order, specialization, self-awareness, safety, and
>group specifically.

Hmmm. I would need a tall order of stuff not to relegate all those
behaviors to genetic determinants.

>I will continue to say that memes are basic to behavior
>and are the simplest example of any behavior pattern which can (in
>retrospect) be studied.

And I agree with that. (Don't I? I think I do.) In that, it is through
such behaviors that memes can be found, if they ever will be.

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