> Interesting point. Say I use astrology as a tool to chat up members of the
> opposite sex, and have success using it. Can I then say that this success
> is a result of my priorities, not of astrology? In other words, is a belief
> set (astrology, logic, whatever) something that only becomes desirable or
> harmful when we decide to use it in some way? I'm not sure it makes sense
> to separate beliefs that distinctly from the agents that do the believing.
I, on the other hand do. And I think that is at the root of memetics. We
talked about `viral shells' a while back. Which is more important in a
viruses ability to infect: It's shell and the receptor triggers on it, or
the DNA inside?
-Prof. Tim