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To: carolm who wrote (36120)	12/7/2000 2:23:42 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 54805

Carol, Re: "The Meme Machine" << My takeaway from this book was that it dovetailed with the Gorilla Game by explaining why technology has such exponential growth compared to bricks and morter, transportation, utilities, or other sectors. Her background is as a scientist, not an investor, so she did not made the connection to investing, but the possibility certainly suggests itself >> On the list. - Eric -

To: carolm who wrote (36120)	12/7/2000 2:28:22 PM
From: Bargain Hunter	Respond to of 54805

I read "The Meme Machine" too. It advances some interesting theories about human social development and how it could have generated selection pressure to encourage brain development. In terms of applying meme theory to investing, I think its most powerful use is helping to explain the invalidity of the efficient market hypothesis. "The Meme Machine", Susan Blackmore, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 850365 2. Forward by Richard Dawkins.

To: carolm who wrote (36120)	12/7/2000 9:55:04 PM
From: tfrugal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

"The Meme Machine" has a forward by Richard Dawkins. He wrote "The Selfish Gene" which this book is based. That is one that I've read and it does have some paradigm shiftyness to it. It compares ideas spreading to germ theory. What we see a "cause" is just the vector: Hitler wasn't the cause of Nazism, but his oratory skills multiplied by radio broadcasts "infected" the German people with the Nazi meme. The black plague was spread by fleas/rats but was a pathogen. Pre-infection with other memes can "innoculate" a mind against more virulent ones: a religious meme is hard for a nasty/nazi meme to boot out of a mind. Memes undergo Darwinian natural selection. Once I figured out how to see market place competition thru gorilla/king colored glasses, and saw how much of the long term behavior of companies could be understood this way, the G&K meme was firmly implanted in my mind. Now that technical analysis meme is having trouble competing....