Re: virus: Level 3

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:47:44 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Dave Pape wrote:

> Sometimes at work I say to myself "right, sod thinking about work, I'm going
> to think about memetics," or I'll say "I want to think about bits of
> scriptwriting," etc.
>
> I flick between memetic structures during my day at work. Is this Level 3?

It's one way to make Level 3 plausible.

I'm improvising here [Brodie is the one who invented this terminology,
not me]:

Snap estimation: Consider a short-term stable memetic ecology. Does it
contain memes that attack each other [as opposed to having contrary
short-term goals?]

"The ideal Level-2" memetic ecology doesn't contain memes that attack each
other.

"The ideal Level-3" memetic ecology is critically dependent on such memes
to function properly.

R. Brodie: does this check???

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