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 __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 .) [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].