VirianLexicon:memeoid

Memeoid

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origin: Coined by VectorHKH in "Memes, L5 and the Religion of the Space Colonies," L5 News, 1985-08. Also in httpMEMETICS AND THE MODULAR-MIND. Acknowledged by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, 2nd ed., page 330.

" . . . victims that have been taken over by a meme to the extent that that their own survival becomes inconsequential." (Examples: Kamikazes, suicide terrorists, suicide cult victims.) hosts and memebots are not necessarily memeoids.


See also: meme; auto-toxic; exo-toxic.


Last edited on Thursday, October 2, 2003 12:36:08 am.