RE: virus: And what is a meme that we sh

Nick Knowles LDN (Nick_Knowles@oti.com)
Mon, 09 Feb 1998 07:06:04 -0500

>But to me, there are no memes outside the mind, nor need there be. And
>there is no mind outside the body, nor need there be.

Consider a 'dead language' like say the Cretan Minoan B, which has been
entirely forgotten, but is subsequently deciphered, centruries later. Would
not a poem, advertising jingle, or any other accepted meme form written in
the dead language, have existed dormant outside of any mind?

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