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ANNOTATION:
Improved definitions

The definition of a meme as a "unit" is the best part of the definition. But this is still very weak. All definitions are supposed to ensure some kind of connection structure in people's brains and so should specify what that brain is. I have thus defined a simple and general neural net and defined a philosophy on top of it. This has led to proposing a new social system that optimizes freedom for the greatest variety of social systems (makes possible the greatest number of different "mimes". So the question becomes not which mimee will dominate but which in tern creates the greatest variety).


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Author
Robert Massey (rmassey[ at ]entertain.cim)

Date
Jul 26, 1994

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