RE: virus: Does a dog have meme-nature?

lasher@usinternet.com
Sun, 9 Jun 1996 22:13:27 -0500


Con Knudtson wrote on June 7th:
> Since dogs cannot share theories, "Is there a God?" cannot form a
>canine meme. Dogs can reason, remember, dream and perhaps even imagine, but
>there is no meme as such among dogs.
I agree with the idea that dogs would/do not contain the memes that we do
regarding the possible existence of a supreme being or such, but it may be
possible that dogs may generate "personal" memes regarding their
surroundings/environment. Someone once wrote that to assume that we are
alone in the universe would be an extremely egocentric/or ethno, it is one
of the -centrics, anyway, wouldn't also it be presumptous to assume that we
are alone in "our" memetic abilities. Later...
...Lasher.

Always remember "...there are far stranger things in heaven than earth
Horatio.."-Hamlet.