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Ewww... Despite the milk snorting, I think there may be some small merit in
using new maps for familiar territories. We may be talking about the same
external territory with thunderbolts of Zeus and electricity, for example,
but the map of electricity permits us to manipulate it differently, towards
different ends, and with different efficacities.
-emc
<Scott Wrote:>
It's hard to read something like Lawrence posted above without the
obligatory eye roll and snort of milk through the nose. All something like
memetic engineering would entail is renaming something that's been going on
long before the "meme" was contemplated. Calling it a virus, contagion or
what have you adds nothing to its technological aspect. It's akin to putting
the old wine of sales, marketing and advertising into new bottles with fancy
colours. Lawrence is merely caught up in the fervor of the "meme" "meme" and
it's clogging up his cognitive filters.
</Scott Wrote>
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