From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: The information theoretic view Was: JOM
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:39:38 -0700
And do you also think that birds and monkeys have always been building
skyscrapers, computers, and antibiotics?
Are you seriously arguing that technological progress is impossible in
designing self-replicating cultural organisms? I suppose it doesn't matter
what you argue... it will happen and is happening regardless.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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-----Original Message-----
From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
Of Wade T.Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 2, 1999 9:26 AM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: RE: The information theoretic view Was: JOM
>People are building memes and
>mind viruses right now,
Either people (and birds and whales and monkeys and maybe coconuts) have
_always_ been doing that, or some have recently invented the bureaucracy
required to call this something else. I tend to think it's all
bureaucracy when someone says they are 'building memes'.
And, yes, I tend to think of bureaucracy as superfluous self-escapade at
all times.
- Wade
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