From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Tue 18 Feb 2003 - 04:03:10 GMT
At 08:34 PM 17/02/03 -0500, you wrote:
>on 2/17/03 8:25 PM, joedees@bellsouth.net at joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
snip
>But you memeticists don't talk about people as agents. You're always
>talking about memes as agents. In memetics human minds/brains are just
>passive respositories of meme-food.
A meme *can't* be an agent in the terms used in Minsky's work. It is just
information. Now that information can be used to program or set up an
agent among a person's other mental modules. The agent can range from the
highly useful to inducing complete destruction of the person and their
genes alike. The agent created by the meme can even induce the person to
go out and tell all their friends about the new meme and *then* turn out to
be useful or dangerous.
Keith Henson
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