Re: virus: Experimental memes.

Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:21:42 -0600


Robin Faichney wrote:
>

> I seem to be coming round again to something I was
> thinking a while back, which is that the best way to
> think of memes is as replicating patterns of behaviour.

> Robin

I don't like that approach. Once an idea is sitting in someone's head
who knows what its interacting with in there? Who is to say how it has
influenced their behavior? Its better to just define a meme as
information which has successfully made a copy in another mind. That way
you can test for it. You ask a question that can only be answered by
someone having that meme.
Nate Hall