Re: virus: The Meme and the Hypothesis (was: One More Time, From the Top...)

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:03:05 -0700


Brett writes:

>Though memes might produce errors (mistakes in the
>copying of information)... I don't think that this
>possibility is the best one for suggestion how an
>ORDERED progression from one memetic form to
>another "evolves". I suggest (and it has been
>suggested before) that memetic evolution is due to
>"intentionality" (that is, certain preferred
>patterns are progressively implemented according
>to an inherent ordering-- such that a more highly
>evolved pattern must replace the former due to its
>*superior* organization... rather than attributing
>this new organization to chance and "mutation" ["spontaneous
>generation"]).

I can't disagree with you enough.

-Prof. Tim