See below. In short, if memes were actually the transit materil, as it
were, you wouldn't see `misparsed' memes, only intact or untransmitted.
> that DNA is self-interpreting (or is it? anyone?) whereas the memes are
> interpreted by machinery resident in the receiving station. To carry
> that metaphor a bit further; it would be COV.ZIP for a meme and
> COVZIP.EXE for a gene.
Memes interpret the data stream, you realize, so in a sense memes are
self-interpreting. Forther, the interpretation is fuzzy, not concise,
leading to the (necessity of) parsing errors.
--
Alexander Williams{thantos@alf.dec.com/zander@photobooks.com}
The Mekton is a powerful tool, both physically and emotionally.
There is something that happens to an enemy when he sees his home
and family stepped on by a hundred ton metal man. -- Arkon Verian
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Of all the weapons of the Empire, the greatest and most respected
were the Metal Knights. These Knights had served the leaders of the
Bendar for Generations, righting wrongs and bringing fear to the
Empire's Enemies. It is said that these metal giants were shaped
like men so that the alien servants of Evil would know that it was
Man who defeated them.
-- Scribings from the Murian Archives