From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Tue 18 Feb 2003 - 17:01:33 GMT
On Monday, Feb 17, 2003, at 22:52 US/Eastern, memetics-digest wrote:
> Computer viruses are another close analogy to memes. Only there we
> understand how they work right down to the hardware
Well, somebody understands how they work, I'm sure. I don't. I just
know my particular hardware/software (an Apple G4 running OSX and not
running any Microsoft programs) cannot be harmed by them. I am capable
of passing them on, however, unconsciously, to those susceptible, and
with no effect upon my own 'host'.
Such could be said about memesinthemind- they are equally unconscious,
equally capable of being passed without being held. It is this element
of unconsciousness that no memetic theory (AFAIK) has gotten right,
although the reward/attention hypothesis is a good one.
- Wade
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