I think the problem we have here is that one meaning of the word is well-defined, but might not exist as far as we know and in any case we can't say anything interesting about it, whereas the other meaning of the word has all kinds of things we can say about it, but is not analogous to genes in genetics, and thus totally ruins the analogy to genetics.
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Re: gene/meme
Date: 2003-06-22 03:12 pm (UTC)I think the problem we have here is that one meaning of the word is well-defined, but might not exist as far as we know and in any case we can't say anything interesting about it, whereas the other meaning of the word has all kinds of things we can say about it, but is not analogous to genes in genetics, and thus totally ruins the analogy to genetics.