The thread names an unresolved choice of unit for the replicator claim. Dawkins and Dennett treat a copied formula as the replicator; Sperber and Atran treat stability as reconstruction toward attractors by inference, with true copying as a rare limit; Boyd and Richerson split guided variation, biased transmission, and selection of cultural variants, and Henrich and Gil-White add prestige as a who-you-copy force that can move a distribution while the wording stays put. West Point's Honor Code in 1976 is the host: the sentence copied, the practice on EE 304 reconstructed, the Corps voted to keep expulsion. Until those two objects are scored on separate ledgers, symbiotic-versus-parasitic and "design the ecology" do not yet say which spend. Author dispositions stay author-owned.