Re: virus: One More Time, From the Top...

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:49:44 -0500


Date sent: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:21:19 -0600
From: Nathaniel Hall <natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: virus: One More Time, From the Top...
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> Richard Brodie wrote:
> >
> > Memes are replicators in minds. The term "replicator" is used to denote any
> > information that participates in evolution by natural selection. These
> > definitions are widely accepted in the field, so it doesn't help much to
> > propose new definitions for existing terms.
> >
> > Richard Brodie
>
> I can almost live with that, but what about information that resides in
> a computer or book? Does that information then become a potential meme
> until it is replicated into a mind? If the answer to that is yes than I
> think that's a decent definition.
>
> Nate Hall

Mind and meaning have to mate to produce a meme. Since minds
are notoriously profligate in this area, we are perfused by them.
The hardier and more productive minds and meanings perdure and
replicate ever hardier and more reproductive progeny.