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>From: "Philip Jonkers" <philipjonkers@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: sex and the single meme
>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:06:08 -0900
>
>Salice:
> > If the brain would be defined by memes everyone could be a
> > genius. Just read the right books and you become intelligent but
> > there's more to that which is clear i think. Memes are not
> > everything.
>
>Not so I think. Let's consider the analogy brain-computer again.
>Compare a crappy old-timer like the sx 286 to
>a pentium IV power-house with all the nifty bells and whistles you can
>hope for. Now you gonna install software on both machines. On the
>first you install MS-DOS since it is the only OS it can handle. On the
>pentium IV machine you install an infinitely more versatile and
>robust OS like Red-hat Linux 7.1. Since memory and speed are significant
>limiting factors in the 286 you can install perhaps some basic small
>applications
>and that's it. On the other hand, you can upload all the software your
>money
>can buy with the flashy 60 GB pentium IV.
>
>The operational capacity of both machines is partly defined by the software
>they can handle. Which machine will give you the best performance
>and applicability spectrum? Exactly... The same goes with brains
>(computers)
>and memes (software), if you have a shabby brain to begin with you'll have
>a
>hard time
>downloading useful memes. This doesn't mean that everyone with a souped
>up brain adopts exclusively useful memes, of course.
>
>
That explains things. My brain must be a Commodore 64.
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