Re: virus: Belief and Knowledge

Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:11:26 -0400


> The definition is pretty well settled among academics along the lines of
> the one I use in VIRUS OF THE MIND: a piece of information in a mind
> that influences events such that more copies of itself get created in
> other minds.

Yeah, it is.

The problem lies, of course, in what 'a piece of information in a mind'
is all about....