You can still perform the analogy, with the meme being "wanting to throw a carrot at the speaker due to having seen someone else do similar in the past". Specifically, I suppose that the meme then is the memory of having seen someone react in a particular way to a particular situation. Other memes (such as "people often take offence at having a carrot thrown at them") might then affect or suppress the action of the first meme. But at this stage I think it's clear that the analogy to genetics is being stretched purely for the sake of it :-)
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Re: gene/meme
Date: 2003-06-20 09:27 am (UTC)Nice.
You can still perform the analogy, with the meme being "wanting to throw a carrot at the speaker due to having seen someone else do similar in the past". Specifically, I suppose that the meme then is the memory of having seen someone react in a particular way to a particular situation. Other memes (such as "people often take offence at having a carrot thrown at them") might then affect or suppress the action of the first meme. But at this stage I think it's clear that the analogy to genetics is being stretched purely for the sake of it :-)