Re: Running jokes and other tom foolery

Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com)
Thu, 07 Aug 1997 16:29:14 -0700

> Of course, it just happens that, more often than not, posters of "What is
> the Eternal Return?" questions just happen to be writing papers...

Ah, that's it! Nietzsche anticipated memetics, and the Eternal Return is
the first ironically self-aware self-consciously self-propagating meme.
Shall we break out the Douglas Hofstadter now?

Hey, at least now I know I can blame Fritzi for all those chain letters.

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Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd




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