>Now, let's go to the cheating, or as Richard calls it in the "Virus of the
>Mind" -- "hypocrisy". There are different ways we can approach our
>relationship with this axiom (N = No, Y = Yes):
I'm going to try a translation of these statements into descriptions of
memetic processes, using "meme x" to tag the axiom-meme:
>1. Don't think of it at all (N).
Meme x hasn't yet been transmitted into our memetic ecology.
>2. Think of it (Y) and:
Meme x /has/ been transmitted into our memetic ecology.
> 2.1 believe it (YY) and
Meme x is assimilated into our memetic ecology so as to be competitively
dominant over memes that would oppose it.
> 2.1.1 encourage others to believe it (YYY)
Meme x is transmitted to other memetic ecologies (people/groups of people).
> 2.1.2 discourage others as if they did not believe
it (YYN).
A meme which opposes (competes with) meme x, becaomes active enough to be
transmitted to other memetic ecologies.
> 2.2 do not believe it (YN).
Meme x impinges on our memetic ecology but is outcompeted by opposing memes.
>The YYN people say "don't be obsessed with truth" when it is convenient for
>them. The same people, when somebody has a different opinion can say: "This
>is your simple prejudice, and an inaccurate one." As if they were saying:
>"nobody knows what is accurate except me". These are the hypocrites.
Sorry, perhaps they're producing a mixture of level-2 and level-3 memes.
Richard?
Dave Pape
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