Note: You are viewing an old revision of this page. View the current version.
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. 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.) hosts and memebots are not necessarily memeoids.
See also: meme; auto-toxic; exo-toxic.