Re: virus: Together or Not

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:04:56 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Marie Foster wrote:

> Tim Rhodes wrote:
> > I wonder if it is proper to say that "I" is a meme or if various models of
> > the self, which when employed call themselves "I", is in fact the meme.
> >
> > (It is the transmittable aspect of memes that makes me hesitant to attach
> > the "meme" label to the general phenomena of consciousness)
>
> Is there a risk in applying it to the general phenomena of
> consciousness?

I'm not so sure consciousness behaves in the way we have (most vaguely)
claimed that a meme would.

Is it transmittable? (Whether it actually does or not.)

Is it open to mutation during propigation? (Again, I think "propigation"
is the stumbling block here.)

Does consciousness "replicate"? If so, how?

-Prof. Tim