Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
An exceptionally popular commercial writer can even become rich from royalties: immediately prior to the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling was reported by The Times to have earnt some £280 million from the sale of an estimated 200 million copies of her books worldwide combined with royalties from the films based on them ….
How soon […] ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
For example, if we had a collection of pairwise disjoint intervals of length 1/2,1/4,1/8,…1/2ⁿ,…,etc., then we would certainly like to be able to say that the measure of their union we is the sum ∑1/2ⁿ=1 which would not follow from finite additivity.
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