Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA10479 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:51:40 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3102A6D1D8@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: playing at suicide Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:24:41 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
If Richard wasn't filtering me I might have replied to this and note that
Bloom's book has been mentioned a few times already, is worth a read, and
(since he is filtering me out, and I wouldn't want to upset him- again-
directly) is significantly bettered referenced than Richard's book.
As Britney says... oops I did it again...
Vincent
> ----------
> From: Richard Brodie
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2002 22:59 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: playing at suicide
>
> Happy new year!
>
> Anyone who hasn't read Howard Bloom's THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE, buy yourself
> a
> new year's gift. The meme wars have begun.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0871136643/memecentralA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Lawrence DeBivort
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2002 1:45 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: playing at suicide
>
>
> Well, inside that little whistling thingie, there is a miniature
> Sensory-Cognition Device (SCD). It begins to mature when the pot first
> comes
> out of the factory, and gains experience and a sense of aesthetics as (and
> the pot) grows older. It can even learn to anticipate a full boil,
> especially if its master/user is sometimes slow to turn the heat down. It
> evolves to this point (via Darwinian processes) because if the heat isn't
> turned down quickly enough, the pot can boil off all its water, the
> whistling thingie must stop whistling, though it is left in great pain,
> and
> all the metal parts of the pot can melt down, resulting in a horrible
> smelling death. I know.
>
> Happy new year, Richard, and all you other memetic rascals!
>
> Lawrence
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> > Of Richard Brodie
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:16 PM
> > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > Subject: RE: playing at suicide
> >
> >
> > <<Almost any mother can listen to her baby and tell you if it
> > wants milk, a
> > diaper change, or just some attention. She knows because the baby
> > communicated the want or need to her. If the baby didn't know it had
> the
> > need, it wouldn't be able to express it.>>
> >
> > Does a whistling teapot know it needs to be poured?
>
>
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