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From: ashton@netcom.com (shub)
Subject: Re: GREAT Pynchon AI.Life Quote!
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 00:41:25 GMT
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nv91-asa@lurkers.nada.kth.se (Anders Sandberg) writes:

>Memetics studies self-replicating ideas (like jokes or cults) from a
>biological point of view (memes infect new hosts, compete for attention
>and communication etc). In the same way a culture could be seen as a
>kind of meta-organism. I'm also reminded of the idea of metasystems in
>the Principia Cybernetica Project.

Pointers ...
          
   http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/
          Principia Cybernetica Project
          Articles on evolution, self-organization, memetics, etc.
          http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/*MEMES
          ftp://is1.vub.ac.be/pub/projects/Principia_Cybernetica/
          
   http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/memetics/
          World Wide Web Memetics page
          
ASh
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The self-replicating ideas are conspiring to take over our minds!
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The self-replicating ideas are conspiring to take over our minds!

(couldn't resist ... Towards Ascension !)
