Re: memetics-digest V1 #1327

From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Fri 18 Apr 2003 - 21:45:11 GMT

  • Next message: Scott Chase: "Re: The influence of memes on genetic evolution"

    On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 05:33 PM, memetics-digest wrote:

    > Yawning is hardly a meme, but the behavior is contagious and almost
    > impossible to counteract.

    Piffle. Once one is aware of this, it is child's play not to yawn. And don't forget the origins of yawning in defensive posturing.

    This is a first effect of knowledge, and why religions hate it so.

    - Wade

    =============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri 18 Apr 2003 - 21:52:32 GMT