>I think you want to read Matt Ridley's 'Genome' and Susan Blackmore's
>'The Meme Machine' for starters.
Why do you assume I have no idea about science? Because I don't use the
correct terms or footnotes? Surely I have leave to disagree even with
scientists? For the record I'll say, being no expert and only a poor
misled poet, that although I think memes a compelling and useful idea,
rightly or wrongly I don't agree that human beings are merely hosts for
them.
So there.
After all, if you're a poet used to thinking of yourself in a context of
a tradition, memes aren't so alarming an idea, nor so threatening to the
"self", as people seem to claim. But we are still separate human beings
walking around in separate skins, with our own separate feelings and
perceptions (which do not necessarily have anything to do with memes).
And I still don't think an organism of 200 billion neurones firing in all
directions is easily explicable.
best
Alison
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