Re: virus: Re: Rationality

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Sat, 1 Mar 97 11:05:26 -0500

>I now
>think that memes and instincts are types of a more general category of
>behaviour-generating patterns (learned and innate, respectively). I don't
>think the general category has a name yet. (Maybe "agent" as in Minsky's
>Society of Mind.)

Yes. Why, yes. A nice leaning post indeed.

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