RE: virus: The One or the Many? (was: META)
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:38:46 +0100
> From: David McFadzean[SMTP:david@lucifer.com]
>
> At 08:26 PM 10/18/97 +0100, Robin Faichney wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the refs, but while I rearrange my schedule
> >to make time for reading them, could you just give me
> >a very brief explanation as to why a fad is not a meme,
> >but an expression of one? Thanks alot.
>
> It is like the difference between blues eyes and the
> genes for blue eyes, phenotypes and genotypes. Why would
> you want to merge the two concepts in memetics?
>
Because they're not different things there?
This stinks of taking metaphors too literally,
to me.
Well, the, danger on the rocks is surely past;
still I remain tied to the mast...
Steely Dan
Actually, I'm beginning to suspect quite strongly
that whether memes are actually behaviour, or
something else, is not a well-formed question.
Robin