>1) Not a topic I want to tackle straight off. Details?
>2) Memes are just complex patterns. They don't "exist" the way atoms do
>or souls are supposed to.
I would like to suggest that memes exist in exactly the same sense that
atoms do: they are both patterns. Atoms are of course systems of sub-
atomic particles, which in turn are patterns of quarks. And we have no
reason to believe that quarks are the end of the story. Existence seems
to be a quality we attribute to reified patterns, i.e. information
considered to be an object for conceptual convenience.
-- David McFadzean dbm@merak.com Memetic Engineer http://www.merak.com/~dbm/ Merak Projects Ltd.