Re: virus: Manipulation 101

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:03:04 -0700

At 12:10 AM 23/02/97 -0800, Eva-Lise Carlstrom wrote:
>So a meme doesn't have to be transmitted culturally, it only
>has to be potentially transmissible thus? Of to be of the type of
>thing that generally is? Something like dictionary definitions of
>femaleness, in which one has to allow for non-fertile females, so one
>can't rely on egg production as a necessary condition.

Yes, that's a good analogy.

>I meant it changes the existing entities (the ones involved in the memetic
>transfer). Did you mean "the new materials replace the old materials",
>which I agree with, or "the new entities replace the old entities", which
>I don't?

I meant that the "sexual" interaction of memes may generate new memes
that replace the old memes, thus changing the memetic ecology of the host.
(So yes, we agree.)

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