Re: virus: Isomorphing
B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:41:55 PDT
>From a memetic perspective (at least my own
version), traits are coded within a memetic
pattern-- discernible through language, behavior,
(perhaps) electro-chemical squiggles, etc.-- in a
way that they (the traits) represent, first, the
sum of Darwinian evolution... that is, they show
chance recombination, and "mutation": Or rather,
they are encoded in a way that the specific traits
are represented in the full spectrum of their
competitiveness (blue AND brown eyes as graphed
across all possible combinations) so that the SUM
is replicated-- though the content is thus
non-specific to the carrier (the traits are
already contained as a potential within the new
host and are activated by the transfer of the
pattern)... the meme is thus generalizable from
carrier to host and adaptable to the traits of the
host.
Being coded in a complex way (not trait specific),
the re-emergence of trait specific behavior, etc.
might be an isomorphism of the memetic pattern.
The *symbolic* history of the meme is thus best
understood in a "metaphoric" way of this (pattern)
FOR that (behavior).
B. Lane Robertson
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