Re: UKNM: Memes and marketing

[Quentin Langley]

Memes, like genes, do not have any "inherent desires".

 It is simply the case that successful memes/genes

will prosper and others will not.  Memes compete with

other memes for use of resources - brain power - but

only have a particular "interest" in defeating their

allele, or opposite.


For further reading try "The Selfish Gene" by Richard

Dawkins.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192860925/


--- Rory Teeling <

rory_teelingyahoo [dot] com

> wrote:

> Apropos of nothing going on in discussions to date:

> 

> Has anybody come across memetic theory, wherein the

> argument is posited that ideas, like genes have an

> inherent 'desire' to propogate and replicate, and

> peoples minds are fundamentally meme incubators. 

> 

> Strong memes invade minds and 'evict' less strong

> memes. Information iteslf is merely the carrier of

> memes, and opens the mind to allow the meme carried

> to

> take up residence.

> 

> If this is true, what does that make us in the meme

> transfer and evolution model?


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