Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)

jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com
Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:57:38 GMT


Dave Pape wrote:

> I'd suggest that the thing that makes the
> target's memosphere "vulnerable to throw out the intended meme-complex"
> would just be more memes which're resonant with the intended meme-complex,
> ones which draw in associations between the previously transmitted meme
> components.

Can there ever be 100% certainty that the target will reconstruct the
original meme? Is there a finite amount of information needed? Using
your thriller analogy, is there a point at which every viewer is aware
of the identity of the culpret, and they are all correct?

Drakir