Robert Owen <rowen@technologist.com> writes:
> I am not a biologist, so I am not aware of anything that could "infect"
> a meme, although for all I know they could be vulnerable to a virtual
> neurological virus and become neuropathic, or, for that matter, exhibit
> unseemly virtual warts or other unwanted excrescences.
:-) Of course, the worst infectors of memes are other memes. Some memes attach themselves to other memes to get help in spreading (like chain mail letters about the current Big Humanitarian Issue, or ideologies that take one discipline and make it their vehicle).
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension! asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y