Re: virus: MEME UPDATE: To Censor Or Not?
Alexander Williams (thantos@alf.dec.com)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:39:21 -0500
Dave Pape wrote:
> think it's quite an appealing concept. People are networks of subatomic
> units which by their interactions give rise to atoms, which in THEIR
> interactions, give rise to molecules, which in THEIR interactions give rise
> to cells, which in THEIR interactions give rise to bodies, which by their
> interactions give rise to memes, so... maybe ideas interacting give rise to
> yet higher levels of interacting units. Just thought I'd run tha up the
> flagpole, see if anyone saluted.
I believe you call such larger structures "cultures". This is not,
contrary to popular belief a smart-assed answer. :)
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