> Wade T. Smith
Interesting that you should mention a calculator. What if you
considered the machine as a very primitive mind? Then the memes could be
considered to be deliberately hard wired in. Viola! You got just the
thing your looking for! The exact place and time where a meme is being
processed. The next step up is a computer. It certainly does not have
the sophistication of human minds but if one considers it as a primitive
mind, then the programs which run on it, and the instruction set on its
central processing chip, could therefore be considered memes. (Remember
I define a meme as an idea that replicates in a mind. Therefore a
program does not necessarily have to try on its own to make copies of
itself, like a virus, for me to consider it a meme)
I believe in the attempt to duplicate intelligence on machines we will
learn more about how the mind works because we will come to realize what
you *must* have to make a mind work
Nate Hall