Re: virus: And what is a meme that we should be mindful of it?

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:52:13 -0800


Damn! Too quick for me again, ehh, Wade? Just when I send the question I
discover you have already answered it! Dagnabit!

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> From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>

> I am sitting on the following fence about this-
>
> Either memes are part of the neural interface between perception and
> memory, in which case they are only malleable by the disassociative
> person, or they are part of the neural interface between memory and
> behavior, in which case they would be malleable by the 'enlightened'
> individual.

So are you saying that memes are only memes after they are decoded? Would
you say that artifacts (such as books) are, or rather, contain memes? Or
is this only the potental for memes?

> But to me, there are no memes outside the mind, nor need there be. And
> there is no mind outside the body, nor need there be.

Nor is there language outside the mind. So why are you reading this?

-Prof. Tim