Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!klaatu.rutgers.edu!josh From: josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The Ignorant assumption Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 88 01:24:10 GMT Article-I.D.: klaatu.Sep.6.21.24.07.1988.222 References: <19880820041348.2.NICK@HOWARD-JOHNSONS.LCS.MIT.EDU> <1311@garth.UUCP> <545@cseg.uucp> <1369@garth.UUCP> <707@proxftl.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 13 >Christian Bible is a piece of junk. Let's forget it. If nothing else, the C.B. is one of the most successful and infectious meme complexes in our intellectual history, and deserves careful meta-study. --JoSH Relevance: I suspect that a study of memetic ecology would prove quite profitable to AI. Reference: "The Ecology of Computation", B.A.Huberman, ed., North-Holland, 1988.