>I think you've hit upon an important dynamic of the CoV here. I suspect
>that, broadly speaking, we can divide the membership into "soft"
>memeticists (who, as you say, view memes as a usful metaphor, when it
>works) and "hard" memeticists (who see in memetics the beginnings of a
>description of an actual mechanism).
What about the ones that think that descriptions of actual mechanisms
are useful metaphors?
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/