Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben de Luca wrote:
> Its "hook,line and sinker" like "lock, stock and barrel". With the
> obvious meaning. Though with the amount of google hits the 'like'
> alternative gives, I think there is no way are putty that meme back in
> the bottle.

"Richard Dawkins, who coined the word [meme] in his book The Selfish 
Gene defines the meme as simply a unit of intellectual or cultural 
information that survives long enough to be recognized as such, and 
which can pass from mind to mind. "

and another quote.....
"Meme (pron. meem): A contagious information pattern that replicates by 
parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing 
them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with 
"gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, 
and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a 
meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone 
else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic."

Ummmm????  so if a meme is a "contagious information pattern that 
replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their 
behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern." then I presume that 
the GPL is a meme ? :-)

Mike
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