Re: virus: Wade Predicts Future!

Nathan Russell (frussell@frontiernet.net)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:43:40 -0400

Richard Brodie wrote:

> Look guys. There are all kinds of replicators. The word "meme" has been
> coined to refer to the ones in the mind. There are certainly ones outside
> the mind, such as the Eiffel Tower, Shakespeare's plays

These (plays) could be memes if taught to one actor to another, both knowing the
play by heart.

> and dreadlocks. But
> let's think about how to spread which memes and not so much about
> definitions, huh?
>

Agreed.

>
>
>
> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
> Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
> Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
> http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of Tim Rhodes
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 1:03 AM
> To: Church of Virus
> Subject: virus: Wade Predicts Future!
>
> For those of you not following the Journal of Memetics mailing list, I
> thought it interesting to note that the professional academics in the field
> of memetics are just now getting around to dividing into camps and duking it
> out over an issue Wade, myself and others brought to your enlightened CoV
> attention months ago: The Neural vs. Extrocranial Meme debate.
>
> The Church of Virus--always first to you with the great debates that shape
> your world!
>
> -Prof. Tim
>

--
Nathan Russell
frussell@frontiernet.net


Question of the week:
 If extraterrestrials are willing and able to cross
interstellar distances merely to perform weird experiments on us and
mess with our government and then begin the journey home, is it really
the best thing for the future of the human race to send fighter planes
to annoy them?