Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:50:08 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

> > So does it really do us any good to look for a neural pattern that
> > coresponds to a meme or is this just pissing in the wind?
>
> The search is always valuable, we just shouldn't be disappointed by
> finding them in an unexpected form. The search for the "gene" led us
> to marvellous new understandings and capabilities. It just never led
> us to anything we could point to and call a gene.

Well said.

-Prof. Tim