virus: Memetical Axioms

Tadeusz Niwinski (tad@teta.ai)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 18:28:20 -0700

Wade wrote:
>I wrote:
>>(3) We are capable of selecting memes we let control what we do.
>>
>>Assuming (3) is true, the more we learn the wiser we can control memes in
>>our minds (would it be another axiom, or can we prove it?)
>
>Allowing 1 and 2, 3 becomes, for all intents and purposes, the very Level
>3 of which we are also speaking.

When I said "We" in (3) I meant all people (not only those chosen ones from
Seattle). It makes it even more interesting to build the third axiom around
mystery of Level-3.

>I would suggest 3 is a big step, and the one where 'memetics' (whatever
>that is) holds sway. It may also be culturally a useless enterprise to
>explore. A mirror up to the mirror....

A question to all concerned with memetical experiments: Do we have axioms
and if so, what do you think of the 3 axioms I have suggested:
> (1) Memes exist.
> (2) Memes control what we do.
> (3) We are capable of selecting memes we let control what we do.

#(3) seems to be the most controversial.

Regards, Tadeusz (Tad) Niwinski from planet TeTa
tad@teta.ai http://www.teta.ai (604) 985-4159