From csus.edu!wupost!uunet!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jf41+ Wed Jul 7 13:29:15 1993 Path: csus.edu!wupost!uunet!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jf41+ From: "Jonathan R. Ferro" Newsgroups: alt.memetics Subject: memetics bibliography (was Re: memetics background) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 23:49:55 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes: > I will keep track of what is published here for a while, and do some > home work Here is the contents of the 'memes' file that has been sitting in my 'stuff' directory for some time now. I don't recall what I meant by the arrangement of these items anymore, so I will simply insert the file and allow the parts to find their own memvironmental niches. -------------------- Inserted file: ~jf41/stuff/memes K Eric Drexler, in 'Engines of Creation' Richard Dawkins, _The Selfish Gene_ Richard Dawkins, "Viruses of the Mind", The British Humanist Association, 14 Lamb's Conduit Passage, London, WC1R 4RH; 1992 Voltaire Lecture Daniel Dennett, "Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination" Dennett, Daniel (1991). _Consciousness Explained_. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., Chapter 7. philosophy email network? extropians@gnu.ai.mit.edu? sci.nanotech? alt.cyberspace? erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes: The underlying problem with the meme model is that the evolutionary dynamics of memes differ dramatically from the dynamics of genes. ESS theory, in particular, is not applicable. -------------------- End inserted file I would also be interested in tracking fictional appearances of the meme concept, such as the short-short titled (I think) "The Alien" in _Alan Moore's Shocking Futures_. I will relocate this at home tonight and post a summary over the weekend. Anyone interested in trying to reconstruct the life cycle of the .Sig Virus? My construction appeared mid-1992 at the very end of the craze, but was found amusing enough even at that late date that I received several messages of congratulation for still being able to squeeze a fresh idea out of the aged concept: SGNTR VRS VRSN 3.1B: Strppd nd cmprssd fr qckr trnsmssn! nfct yrs tdy! Happy Hacking! -- Jon Ferro Einsprachigkeit ist heilbar