Please define what you mean by 'life'
> It would then be desirable to avoid parasitic memes (especially
> unsuccessful ones) and to seek colonization by symbiotic meme cultures
> that protect the organism in regard to health and that otherwise create
> conditions conducive to survival and growth. I suppose that in this
> connection it could also be argued that If one had the right meme or
> combination of memes one could achieve eternal life or big bucks;
> hopefully both. Do I seemed to have grasped the Idea or perhaps I should
> say been infected.
Big bucks...possibly. Eternal life...hafta part with ya there. Humans,
as with all other multicellualer organisms, have a life which
unfortunately has death hardwired into the programming. The only way
that a meme could combat this would be to cause the host to extend the
host's phenotype in such a way as to...well i cant say, we havent done
it yet. my best guess would be selective manipulation of a cell's
chromosome's telomeres. redirect cellular reproductive tides. i
digress...what i mean to say is that memes alone could only indirectly
influence such a feat.
> Of course, in transmission
> > there are all kinds of mutation going on, so
> > two people never really hold the same idea.
> > But if you could track the macro movements
> > of an idea, I'm sure that the study of memes
> > would be justified.
>
> They do sound like interesting critters. Is there purported an emotional
> equivalent to the meme?
propaghanda perhaps?
> Ciao!
>
> Bones