Re: Marvin Minsky - Troll Victim?!


"FED UP" <endtraveler@xxxxxxxxx> mis-wrote in message
news:1150301258.883243.215420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Which leads me to believe that the story is merely an internet meme


I think this a misuse of the word "meme".

I think the above-quoted sentence is a misuse of the English language. So
what?!

As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of
cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are
tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or
of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool
by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate
themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to >brain via a
process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.

Right! So me and my old pal Richard (or "Richie-Wichie", as we call him)
both agree. I was right to suggest that the aforementioned rumour may, in
fact, be an internet meme. Though it may very well not be, as it's probably
based on a true story. But so what?!

I don't consider a story going around about
Minsky involved in a usenet arguement a meme.

I don't consider the term "arguement" a word. So what?!

It's not cultural.

Neither's your English. So what?!











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