[extropy-chat] Calvin and Memes (was Memes and Identity)

[Lee Corbin]

Robert writes

> [Lee writes]
> > I think that it may be a lost cause to remove "ideas" from being memes. 
> > Haven't we just seen that usage in too many places?  But if we can
> > restrict its meaning, in my opinion we should.

> Ok, I'll use RCNPFUEM from now on when I'm talking about the topic
> of internal neural patterns that behave like memes.  But the newbies will
> be lost and a lot of people will be taking up valuable conference time
> asking me to explain how to spell rec-nep-fuem and what it means.  :-) 

Well, you could just follow Calvin and say "brain activity patterns", or, as
you do above, "neural patterns". 

And I see that there have been other suggestions that seem somewhat less
peculiar than RCNPFUEM  :-)

Lee