Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990722114141.00c42afc@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:41:41 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: RE: memetic fitness
In-Reply-To: <fc.005b8ff1003027df3b9aca0098dcdc3e.302826@amazon.shu.ac.u
At 04:02 PM 7/22/99 +0100, Ilfryn PRICE wrote:
>Derek
>>
>>>Aargh! I think I need to go and lie down!!!! Anybody got any valium?
>>>
>>>and finally... what was I going to say? I don't know I've lost it
>>>completely now, I'm just a gibbering wreck maybe you're right we shouldn't
>>>debate any more
>
>Aaaron
>>
>>
>>Fine. I'm not here to make a nervous wreck of anyone. Besides, we both have
>>serious work to do.
>
>Oh come now guys - keep it up or many promising analses of the relative
fitness of the Gatherer meme and the Lynch meme will be
>scuppered. Anyone into memetics as discourse could have a field day
calibrating equations olong the lines of
>
>W (g) = 1 - S(l) or vice versa
>
>Anyone inmto memetics as the source of individual barriers to learning and
enquiry (see Chapters 5 and 6 of Shifting the
>Patterns) could likewise have a field day.
>
>Go to it. You will do applied memetics a service.
If,
He said "Valium," not "Stalazine." (!)
;-)
--Aaron Lynch
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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