Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)
Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@calweb.com)
Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:22:19 -0800 (PST)
> >Someone, in the last couple of weeks, said that no meme cannot be broken
> >down further. Do you agree? Surely there must be some fundamental level
> >for a singular meme, otherwise, meme-complex and meme would be universally
> >interchangeable.
>
> Someone answer this, because it's been confusing me for ages as well... is
> there an atomic meme? I'm kind of thinking no... but then I spin off into a
> fractally recursive explanation wormhole.
Seems pretty obvious to me: a neural pattern that causes a single-nerve
stimulus to produce a single muscle contraction is the "atomic" meme,
from which all others all built. Of course, it has to be an acquired
pattern, not hard-wired.
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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
<http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>