Re: virus: Memetical Axioms

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:04:35 -0600


At 06:28 PM 9/19/97 -0700, Tadeusz Niwinski wrote:

>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.

I would like to suggest another:
(1a) We are our memes.

So from (1a) and (2):
(4) We control what we do.

>From (1a) and (3)
(5) Our memes are capable of selecting memes we let control what we do.

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