From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 20:28:58 MDT
At 11:00 AM 8/9/03 -0400, Rafal wrote:
>Only the iconoclastic Skoptsy and Shakers contributed to today's gene pools.
But the traditionalists, who declined to propagate their genes, left
powerful memes, as your post demonstrates (since you remember and share
news of them). Such meme remnants might yet serve as the seed for a new
memetic attractor. (I first learned of the Skoptsy sect when I was 14 and
read Alfred Bester's extrapolation of their cult in THE STARS MY
DESTINATION; his version is a sort of horrifying dark side of the uploading
scenario...)
Damien Broderick
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