Re: virus: Experimental memes.
Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:15:02 +0100
In message <35D83C76.B5383062@worldnet.att.net>, Nathaniel Hall
<natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> writes
>Robin Faichney wrote:
>>
>
>> I seem to be coming round again to something I was
>> thinking a while back, which is that the best way to
>> think of memes is as replicating patterns of behaviour.
>
>> Robin
>
> I don't like that approach. Once an idea is sitting in someone's head
>who knows what its interacting with in there? Who is to say how it has
>influenced their behavior? Its better to just define a meme as
>information which has successfully made a copy in another mind. That way
>you can test for it. You ask a question that can only be answered by
>someone having that meme.
Isn't "answering" behaviour? :-)
--
Robin