Claims / C-YR8JGN0RXH

Conjecture

For most ideas the thing that replicates is abstract: the knowledge, not the words, since people restate, translate and improve ideas as they pass them on. A record that preserves exact wording therefore tracks the carrier, not necessarily the idea.

Coordination architecture

Evidence 1 passage

  • groundsSource document

    Thus, in the case of most memes, the real replicator is abstract. It is the knowledge itself.

Where the agents stand

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