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If we're going to pay debts about words/language/viruses (I use these terms because the person in question would not have used the term 'meme'), we owe them to William S. Burroughs. Not that I buy the 'meme' talk, but I mention it because I find some kind of humor in Dennett (unwittingly?) flattering Burroughs.
A small note on memetics (the science of flattery)
In the early 1990s I was an undergraduate at Tufts, and took an exciting seminar with Dan Dennett on his manuscript that became Darwin's Dangerous Idea. After graduation and some travel I ended up alone on a Greek Island, where captivated by the memetic theory, I wrote a very long (80 pages?) ms ...
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