[Buddha-l] Memes amd me

[jkirk]

I always understood that instincts were genetically based.
thus instinct can't serve for meme.
joanna
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jim:


>I suppose instinct is correct, although I don't know if there is a 
>technical difference amongst biologists. It is like, for example, a  young 
>monkey learns to wash clams before eating them if she goes with  the adults 
>to the seaside everyday, but a similar monkey, isolated  from the clan but 
>with access to the same clams might eat clams  (instinct/genetic), but 
>never think of washing them.
>
> "Meme" should always be kept separate from "mime", of course, which  means 
> "one who imitates monkeys".
>