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Cultural Evolution and Oral Tradition: ‘Information transfer’ at the micro scale
My own position, is that the genetic elements of culture, which Dennett calls memes and which I’ve recently been calling coordinators, are properties of physical phenomena in the public sphere. In this case it’s the word forms, the physical sounds, that play the genetic role.
They are internal to the mechanism by which the story is held in the mind.
By Bill Benzon
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2015/06/cultural-evolution-and-oral-tradition.html