RE: virus: Introduction

Carlos E. Sangronis Ch. (sangroni@telcel.net.ve)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:51:42 -0400


In a message dated January 7 David McFadzean wrote:

>Welcome!

Thank you so much. I hope to learn a lot from this list.

>Memetic engineering is exactly that: designing an idea that will
>propagate itself.

How I can guarantee that a meme that I desing will spread itself?
Can you give me examples?

>The list is the main forum for members and
>friends of the Church of Virus, which is still in the process
>of defining itself.

>This week I'm inclined to think of the mission of the list is
>to create a new language (which might explain why we spend so
>much time discussing definitions, meanings, words and semantics
>in general :-). The new language will provide the infrastructure
>for a new way of thinking (evolutionary systematics). People
>adopting this new language and way of thinking will become
>a new kind of animal in the process. [I think I may have been
>infected by this particular meme from the writings of Gregory
>Bateson. Does it sound familiar to anyone?]

I read about Gregory Bateson in the Cybernetics sites. Also he is one of
the grandfathers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. The current sistemic
aproach in NLP is based on the work of this brilliant mind.

What do you mean with evolutionary systematics? Seems to be an Integration
of the systemic aproach of Bateson and the work of Darwin in the Evolution.
Could you elaborate more?

Also I´m thinkimg in purchase the book Virus of the Mind. Could you make a
summary of what I can learn from the reading of this book. Specially I like
a summary of the chapter 11 about Desingned Viruses (How to start a Cult).

What do you think of this chapter? Does it have useful method of memetic
engineering?

My best regards,

Carlos Sangronis