Re: virus: Dangerous memes!

Bill Roh (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:53:16 -0400


Gifford, Nathan F wrote:

> Nate writes:
> > There are some behaviors that are so obvious that they
> approach a
> >platonic ideal ... any change of behavior would be suboptimal ...
> >breathing?... My point would be those behaviors are not meme based
> ... but
> >the deviations are.
> Robin writes:
> Sorry, no way. If the behaviour was copied or otherwise
> learned from others, it's meme-based, otherwise it's not.
>
> Nate answers:
>
> Cool .... that can be postulate number 2: Memes are copied or
> learned by rote & not derived.

Wait a second - are we talking about a "first cause" meme now? I mean,
certainly, a person can create some information and become hooked on it -
thereby creating the meme - or proto-meme. After all then, what was the first
meme and where did it come from?

Bill Roh