Re: virus: Memetic Engineering

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:50:08 -0500


Date sent: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:36:21 -0600
From: Nathaniel Hall <natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Memetic Engineering
Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com

> Carlos E. Sangronis Ch. wrote:
> >
> > Dear virions,
> >
> > I hope you enjoy life as much as I do.
> >
> > I subscribe to the list a week ago. My purpose with joining this list is
> > to learn about memetic engineering.
> >
> > I like to know if there are good sites on Internet that have some info
> > about this. I know that Richard Brodie have a good introductory book to
> > memetics called Virus of the Mind. Dont you know about a site on Internet
> > that contains that book.
> >
> > My best regards,
> >
> > Carlos Sangronis
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > Visita mi página sobre Programación Neuro-Linguistica
> > en Venezuela
> > http://members.tripod.com/~pnl2/index.html
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> The word "meme" was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his book
> "The selfish gene". Much of what he talks about in the way of genes also
> applies to memes. A good knowledge of meme lore would start with his
> book.
> Nate Hall

Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society
by Aaron Lynch
may also prove useful.