Re: virus: getting it

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Thu, 11 Jun 98 13:13:55 -0400


>The basis of this
>group is the meme. I need to make sure I have it correct in the absolute
>plainest of English. Please, can someone give me the basest definition?

Ouch....

I myself called it a quanta of culture, and E. O. Wilson, his own self,
calls it a unit of culture- at any rate, it is a point source, and within
the brain, and no-one really has any idea what the hell it is or where
exactly it is or really what the hell it does.

At the moment it is part of a concept of how culture, mind, and behavior
are connected.

It is a happy creation, though, ain't it?

Part of the reason we are here is to find a definition, after all....

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