Re: virus: Extrocranial Memes

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:51:20 -0700


The sleeping Wade wrote:

>I just know that what
>we see and what we read are already the artifacts of ideas and thoughts,
>and as such are IMHO _useless_ as sources of memes. Memes are in the
>brain. Period. Where else, dammit?

Color is also in the brain (where else dammit?), but one can still learn
more about it from a study of photons and wavelength than one can by using
fMRIs.

-Prof. Tim