RE: virus: Altruism, Empathy, the Superorganism, and the

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 23:44:26 +0100 (BST)


Robin Faichney wrote:

>BTW, I'm fairly keen to attach my name to the suggestion
>that empathy is a prerequisite for memetic transmission,
>so if any of you entrepreneurial people out there are thinking
>about passing it off as your own, don't expect to go
>unchallenged! (Though I don't expect to publish anything
>soon, I have mentioned it in circles even more prestigious
>than this one, and I'm archiving all remotely related traffic
>here.)

Why? What empathy does Coca Cola Schweppes have with me? Coke memes have
certainly transmitted between that Company and my mind... otherwise I
wouldn't call Cola "Coke".

Dave Pape
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