其结果是一种折衷方案:人类大脑大到了其身躯所能承受的极限,但其选择能力又足以避免复制致命的模因。
The result was a compromise, with human brains being just about as big as our bodies could stand, and yet selective enough to avoid copying lethal memes.
在新技术背景下,存在着一种新型的信息:电子化二进制信息(不同于模因),还存在着一种新型复制装置:计算机和服务器(不同于大脑)。
There is a new kind of information: electronically processed binary information rather than memes. There is also a new kind of copying machinery: computers and servers rather than brains.
以此类推,模因也被复制,并且在这个过程中,文化信息在人与人之间、代际之间进行传递。
By analogy, memes also get replicated and in the process pass on cultural information from person to person, generation to generation.
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