Re: virus: Rationality

Alexander Williams (thantos@alf.dec.com)
Fri, 28 Feb 1997 21:39:24 -0500


David McFadzean wrote:
> OK, I'll try another tact. What if the versions are not /significantly/
> different?

Then we got lucky. Either I'm amazingly good at communicating my meme,
or you're amazingly good at interpreting my communication, or we just
flat out got lucky. Or have developed an amazingly good protocol that
reduce the probability of encoding/interpretation, I suppose.

> Remember we are talking about information here. Nothing has to move
> in order to transmit it.

But this isn't /just/ information in the pure-information sense; memes
have `hooks,' for lack of a better word, environment, in which
meme-transaction within the memesphere occur and are facilitated by.

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There is something that  happens to an  enemy when he sees his  home
and family stepped on by a hundred ton metal man.    -- Arkon Verian
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Of  all the weapons of the  Empire, the  greatest and most respected
were the Metal Knights.  These Knights had served the leaders of the
Bendar for Generations,   righting wrongs and  bringing  fear to the
Empire's Enemies.  It is  said that these  metal giants were  shaped
like men so  that the alien servants of  Evil would know that it was
Man who defeated them.
                               -- Scribings from the Murian Archives