virus: DE natured IN solence

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:37:29 -0800


Brett Lane Robertson muses:

> Yes, "UN natural DE selection"...but not self-ordered memetics...

"Self-ordered"? What mechanism are you offering to explain this
"self-ordering"?

You dismiss natural selection (more from ignorance of what the concept
actually means, I suspect, than as a result of critical analysis).
Therefore, how do you expain the emergance of this so-called
"self-ordering"? Are you saying that the abstract concept, the meme (if
you will) of <Make round wheels> has a "self"? An identity? *Volition?*

If so, you better be prepaired to back that idea up, Brett. By what
mechanism? Utilizing which properties of an abstract concept does it manage
the near impossible task of ordering /itself/? Explain yourself.

BTW, you'll get no "gimmies" from this side of the fence. (We're far, far
to busy kissing ass over here, for any of that.)

-Prof. Tim