RE: virus: Memetics: our obligations

Brett Lane Robertson (unameit@tctc.com)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:49:08 -0500


Hi,

I'm a newby...just a comment on "Availability/accessibility _isn't_
essential to the transmission of a meme..." I see the key word here to be
"essential". I would agree that availability isn't the *essential*
criteria. Those who say it is are stuck in the darwinistic idea of survival
of the fittest. Memes are Lamarkian. They survive because they are
*cooperative* by nature. They survive by evolutionary mechanisms which fall
under "replication" instead of "reproduction". Things replicate because
they are IDEAL. I would suggest that the essential requirement for the
replication of memes is that they approach the ideal...to improve one's work
would therefore be more important than to share one's work.

Brett

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