From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: The information theoretic view Was: JOM
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:29:35 -0700
You've both missed the point. Conscious engineering of mind viruses is
producing very different results from the unconscious selection of the past.
Before anybody knew what the mechanics of self-replicating culture were,
these things evolved much more slowly. In the past decades, the intentional
manipulation of culture has reached a fever pitch. Combine that with
self-replication and the results are stunning.
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 Robin Faichney
Sent: Thursday, September 2, 1999 10:46 AM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: The information theoretic view Was: JOM
In message <NBBBIIDKHCMGAIPMFFPJAEJDDJAA.richard@brodietech.com>,
Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com> writes
>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.
Be fair, Richard, you did say "doing" it (making memes etc.), not
"getting better at" it. That message was begging for the kind of
response it got from Wade.
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