Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA06818 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:24:42 GMT Message-ID: <006d01c1b8b0$b6b73760$5e2ffea9@oemcomputer> From: "Philip Jonkers" <philipjonkers@prodigy.net> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020218094914.02c9d470@pop.cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: Memes Meta-Memes and Politics 1 of 3 (1988, updates 2002) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:16:04 -0900 Organization: Prodigy Internet Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > >Japan, are all too well known. I have proposed the term "memeoid" for
> > >people whose behavior is so strongly influenced by a replicating
> > >information pattern (meme) that their survival becomes inconsequential
> > >in their own minds.
> > >
> >I use the term "memebots" to refer to the same phenomenon.
>
> I might have used "memebot" myself if I was coining the word today, but in
> the early 80s the -bot was not yet being used. It will be interesting to
> see which term survives if one of them goes out of use.
>
> To put a measure on it, today memeoid gets 38 hits in Google, memebot gets
> 18. The varient spelling memoid get 170 hits but most may not be related.
>
> Keith Henson
Here's another one for you guys:
meme-zombies.
Philip.
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