Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA17935 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 10 May 2000 00:59:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20000509235452.80254.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [212.1.128.63] From: "Diana Stevenson" <dianaxf@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: A useless meme for Chuck Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:54:52 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Chuck - an example of a useless meme is surely one of Dawkins' originals: an
irritating tune which goes round and round in our minds. If I have a tune
on the brain last thing at night, I wake up with it still on the brain in
the morning and it can recur throughout the day. Usually it's a tune I
don't even like!
While the tune may have been useful to the person who "wrote" it, can you
tell me how it is useful to those of us whose brains continually replicate
it? Or why we will sing or whistle it to pass it on? (I exclude advertising
jingles - those aren't the ones that stick with me).
Do I qualify for the promised $100?:)
Diana
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