[Buddha-l] A New Crime

Michel Clasquin clasqm at mweb.co.za
Wed Jan 24 23:49:34 MST 2007


On 25 Jan 2007, at 3:58 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
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> What is a meme? I don't seem to have a dictionary that has this  
> word in it.

What us old farts use to call an idea, a notion, even a hypothesis.  
There's this school of thought that sees memes as analogous to genes  
in the biological sphere, as self-maintaining and self-replicating  
entities that try to survive by spawning new variants and pushing  
competing memes out of the way. Richard Dawkins has been quite  
prominent on this particular bandwagon.



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