> David McFadzean wrote:
> > You are the first person I've come across to claim that memes cannot be
> > transmitted. May I suggest you check out the alt.memetics FAQ
> > (http://www.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/). The whole point of memetics
> > is to understand how ideas are transmitted culturally.
[CLIP]
> Its somewhat disturbing to find the Virus list already so encapsulated
> around dogma; one would think a Virian Church would eschew dogma in
> favour of almost constant catyclismic change.
That requires *exercise*. The tolerance of continual cataclysmic change
requires memetic adaptations that I don't quite have yet. I'll need to
know how they work to write my sci-fi; it sounds like something
well-suited to my alien race, the Iskandran Badgers.
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