@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ !!!Memeoid
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-__origin:__ ''Coined by [VectorHKH] in Analog Magazine 1987
-08. Vide
[MEMETICS AND THE MODULAR-MIND|http://www.google.ca/groups?selm=hkhensonE5ozq9.K8x%40netcom.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain]. Acknowledged by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, 2nd ed., page 330.''
+__origin:__ ''Coined by [VectorHKH] in "Memes, L5 and the Religion of the Space Colonies," L5 News, 1985
-08. Also in
[MEMETICS AND THE MODULAR-MIND|http://www.google.ca/groups?selm=hkhensonE5ozq9.K8x%40netcom.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain]. Acknowledged by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, 2nd ed., page 330.''
-A person
"whose behavior is so strongly influenced
by a [
meme]
that their own survival becomes inconsequential in their own minds
." (Such as
: Kamikazes, Shiite
terrorists, Jim Jones followers, any military personnel)
. [host]s and [memebot]s are not necessarily memeoids.
+" . . . 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
.)
[host]s and [memebot]s are not necessarily memeoids.
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See also: [meme]; [auto-toxic]; [exo-toxic].
