Re: virus: getting it / ICQ list

Josh Aaron Bradley (jab13@cornell.edu)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:09:50 -0400

MEME: (pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. (Wheelis, quoted in Hofstadter.)

also, anyone who wants to be on the virus icq list should e-mail me her/his handle and icq # in the next few days, thanks

-Josh

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