Re: virus: MEME UPDATE: To Censor Or Not? (fwd)

Alex Williams (thantos@decatl.alf.dec.com)
Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:05:09 -0500 (EST)


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> Well if that isn't memetic navigation, I dunno what is. Notice that there's
> no guarantee that you won't get stuck in an energy well, a point where every
> other place round you looks LESS familiar than the one you're in now, yet
> the place where you are now ISN'T home... until maybe a policeman moves you
> on from where you are and you spot an extremely familiar shopfront, which
> sends you to yet more familiar territory, which gets you home.

At the last resort sort of situation, one sees the location one
immediately occupied before the current one as `more familliar.'
Built in backtracking. :)