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	Viruses of the Mind
		Some viruses, therefore, are designed to have an effect that is small enough to be difficult to detect, but which may nevertheless be extremely damaging.
		Returning to possible uses of viruses for positive purposes, there are proposals to exploit the ``poacher turned gamekeeper'' principle, and ``set a thief to catch a thief.'' A simple way would be to take any of the existing anti-viral programs and load it, as a ``warhead,'' into a harmless self-replicating virus.
		DNA viruses and computer viruses spread for the same reason: an environment exists in which there is machinery well set up to duplicate and spread them around and to obey the instructions that the viruses embody.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/dawkins.html (7225 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science.
		Mind viruses have already infected governments, educational systems, and inner cities, leading to some of the most pervasive and troublesome problems of society today: youth gangs, the welfare cycle, the deterioration of the public schools, and ever-growing government bureaucracy.
		Viruses of the mind are not a future worry: they are here with us now and are evolving to become better and better at their job of infecting us.
	www.sff.net /bfob/files/Brodie,_Richard.txt (383 words)

	Introduction to Viruses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Viruses and anti-virus programs are not really the mysterious, complex, and hard to understand software that many people consider them to be.
		Viruses are one specific type of program written deliberately to cause harm to someone's computer or to use that computer in an unauthorized way.
		Viruses usually delay revealing their presence by launching their attack only after they have had ample opportunity to spread.
	www.stiller.com /vintro.htm (3669 words)

	Reading the Mind
		You have to keep the mind thinking and labeling solely in reference to these sorts of themes, for if your thinking and labeling are right, you'll come to see things rightly.
		But if the mind keeps its balance or stops to watch and know within itself, it can come to realize these things for what they are.
		When the mind changes, or when it gains a sense of stillness or calm that would rank as a feeling of pleasure or equanimity, try to see in what ways the pleasure or equanimity is inconstant, that it's not you or yours.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/thai/kee/readmind.html (8169 words)

	Virus of the Mind...
		It could be nothing but a nest of mind viruses that combine to cloud the mirror of your awareness, to eventually sap your energy and to reduce your creative intent to that of folly.
		The inescapable conclusion is that a human being, with his or her genes and mind viruses, is simply a host to the successful replicators.
		This is because beneath the mind viruses, which furnish us with an imperfect knowledge of the world and of ourselves, there is only the ever-changing mystery of pure awareness and intent.
	www.guruwisdom.com /wisdom/virus-of-the-mind-8692.html (1086 words)

	Memes and Memetics
		If you find yourself bombarded with unwanted memes, then you must decipher them, question their origin and purpose, and ready yourself so you will be in control of them as they attempt to infect your senses and your memory.
		Richard Dawkins was the one to first introduce the word MEME in his 1975 book The Selfish Gene [Also see: Viruses of the Mind at: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html] in which he wrote: "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 leading from body to body via sperm 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.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/1920/14941 (569 words)

	Thou Shalt Not Tell Lies Viruses of the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Science fiction and many other types of fiction can be very important for expanding our minds, and helping to shape our thoughts not only on what new worlds might lie ahead, but also how we as a species might choose to live in those worlds.
		Viruses might kill off large fractions of populations of species that are reaching overpopulation, before they destroy their environment via overgrazing.
		Viruses hosted in a nonpathogenic truce by one species might "pay that species back" by killing off other species which invade the host species' territory.
	www.churchofvirus.org /bbs/index.php?board=34;action=display;threadid=25494 (1298 words)

	MommaHen in the Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Richard Dawkins, in his paper Viruses of the Mind, makes a compelling argument that religion is, by its very nature, analogous to a viral contagion.
		Viruses, by definition, are parasitic and in all cases only do harm to the infected host.
		Therefore, Dawkins argument that Faith is the prime symptom of mind viruses is weakened in the analysis.
	mommahenzone.blogspot.com (3057 words)

	Memes: Viruses of the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		At this very moment, you are a carrier of several hundred to several hundred thousand mental viruses in your brain-space.
		Now would also be a good time to analyze the structure of a meme-complex, since most of the things were are infected with are meme-complexes rather than individual memes.
		If the particular meme happens to be auto-toxic or exo-toxic and is strongly implanted enough in someone's mind that they disregard their own survival in pursuit of spreading the meme, they have become a memeoid.
	www.geocities.com /volinar/two/twodotthree/memeintro.html (1545 words)

	Is Christmas a Virus
		Certainly the idea that religions themselves are "viruses of the mind" has been widely propagated (has propagated itself widely?) ever since the Selfish Gene appeared in 1976.
		The trouble is that in almost all this language of memes or viruses is used as if real problem facing a theory of culture was to explain why people sometimes do things apparently against their own interest, like Christmas shopping or getting marytered.
		Calling religions or anything else you disagree with viruses of the mind simply dehumanises their possessors.
	www.darwinwars.com /cuts/ns/is_christmas_a_virus.html (1128 words)

	MIND is
		In fact, it has been said that we, the humans, "exist" only because the Mind "exists", yet there is no Mind outside or without us.
		Enigmatic terra incognita, the Mind, historically an exclusive subject matter within philosophy and psychology, becomes a new frontier for this new Millennium, as it begins to attract increasingly more attention from cognitive scientists, theoretical physicists, internet/computer (AI) systems developers, advertisers, artists and art critics, spiritual/religious teachers and the general public.
		Fundamentally beyond existence and nonexistence, birth and death, the Mind, even if it manifests itself in (as) all phenomena, can not be grasped by the senses or the intellect.
	mindis.com /MINDis.shtml (616 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It's all because of "mind viruses," or "memes," and those who understand how to plant them into other's minds.
		So it is with this background in mind I discovered a copy of 'Virus of the Mind' in the Public Library and decided to read it.
		This book is a thought-provoking read, which may indeed lead to a decision to be less 'thought-provoked' by the mind viruses spread by marketing companies, the mass media, and politicians.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0963600125 (917 words)

	CyberZoo
		In this excellent article, Richard Dawkins explains memes like viruses of the mind, using the detailed example of a computer science virus.
		He applies the theory to fashions as well as religion, and also gives a list of diverse "symptoms" of a mind infected by a meme.
		Whenever one of these viruses infect somebody, it injects its political program in form of an ideological code in an equivalent form to the genetic code: the meme.
	www.cyberzoo.org /eng/links.htm (318 words)

	Viruses of the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As this episode illustrates, it is easy for a person's consciousness to be exploited by a mind virus identical in nature to a computer virus or a biological virus.
		In each case, the virus is a package of information that exploits the resources of a host to replicate itself and to transmit itself to new hosts.
		A mind virus encodes itself as a thought or a bit of consciousness, and can be transmitted visually or aurally, on paper, on a computer screen, or as speech.
	www.libertysoft.com /liberty/reviews/62reid.html (1711 words)

	Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource
		Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection.
		Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life.
		In Virus of the Mind, you seem to neglect truth as a main reason that memes replicate, focusing instead on psychological button-pushing, evangelism, and other non-obvious means.
	www.memecentral.com (785 words)

	YaHooka Forums - Parasitic Viruses of the Mind
		They go bonkers when put into a absolute religion such as Christianity and Islam (otoh, Buddhism and Hinduism are not absolute religions) due to opening up their minds to this fantastic world of miracles and divinely ordained tasks with after-death absolution.
		If you consider "self" as a conglomeration of memes seperate from consciousness, then in the transcendent moment as the "self" falls away, it is a cessation of meme replication in your brain, leaving only consciousness that is not memetic and cannot be reduced to, or expressed in memes.
		If this is true, it would explain why religion and spirituality seems so crazy to the rational mind, because trying to force something that is not a meme into being a meme just wont work.
	www.yahooka.com /forum/showthread.php?t=20510 (2170 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Phillip Johnson's Weblog
		That sort of disaster certainly has happened elsewhere, specifically in Europe and America, but my example will be quite different from any Dennett would cite.
		The best example of Dennett's thesis would be that virus of the mind called Darwinism, whose destructive effect is well summarized in Dennett's own characterization of Darwinism as a "universal acid" which eats through every other belief system, as it has been doing since 1859.
		To adapy Dennett's anecdote, positivism, or scientific naturalism was the fashionable epistemology that enabled the virus to become established in the unsuspecting population, with catastrophic.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/philjohnson?adate=3/15/2003 (385 words)

	[No title]
		Viruses are little bits of genetic information that enter the body and fit into the DNA program.
		For many people these viruses of the mind create a living hell.
		Another virus of the mind is the one which tells us that "my Church/doctrine/spiritual experience is the only right one and everyone who doesn't see things my way will burn in hell forever".
	www.sof-in-australia.org /viruses.htm (527 words)

	Conversation for Exploration - Richard Brodie - Virus of the Mind : The New Science of the Meme
		Conversation for Exploration - Richard Brodie - Virus of the Mind : The New Science of the Meme
		Not all infectious agents are living organisms, according to Richard Brodie: "Viruses of the mind" can live and reproduce in the form of urban myths, advertising jingles, even sexual habits.
		Virus of the Mind has a rather frenetic tone and pop-culture feel, but it also contains some kernels of wisdom that may help you better understand your own culturally induced biases.
	www.lauralee.com /brodie.htm (313 words)

	Viruses of the Mind
		As with DNA molecules, magnetized bytes don't literally "want" to be faithfully copied.
		Returning to possible uses of viruses for positive purposes, there are proposals to exploit the "poacher turned gamekeeper" principle, and "set a thief to catch a thief." A simple way would b to take any of the existing anti-viral programs and load it, as a "warhead," into a harmless self-replicating virus.
		She would call up and say, 'Father hates to do this, but he has this tremendous urge and could you please...?'" His victims were not only female.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/atheist/virus (7206 words)

	Random Walk in E-Learning: Viruses for the Mind
		Kuro5hin has posted this article, titled "Coding Viruses for the Mind".
		It is a virus for the mind only.
		The host of mind virus are human mind.
	elearningrandomwalk.blogspot.com /2004/11/viruses-for-mind.html (283 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend
		In his essay, "Viruses of the Mind", biologist Richard Dawkins described religion as a virus.
		A traditional virus is a sequence of genetic information that invades an organism and uses the resources of that organism to further replicate itself; likewise, a memetic virus is a sequence of information, an idea, that invades a human's brain and replicates itself via that brain's communication with other brains.
		Any physical remedy devised for believing in God would violate the rights of the host, because she obviously would not consent to the treatment.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3429934&postID=107451956147386393 (1079 words)

	Meme - Memes - Memetic Thinking
		Memes are information genes or information viruses which create human brain programming...
		Re:http://www.memecentral.com/level3.htm and "Virus of the Mind" by Richard Brodie.
		Human minds and institutions provide the ecology in which cultural software grows, thrives, and develops.
	www.libertyzone.com /lez-memes.html (1996 words)

	Knight Reading: Virus of the Mind
		His purpose for this exposure is not to encourage unscrupulous persons to deceive but to enlighten the public so we will be inoculated against such scams.
		Not that all viruses of the mind are harmful.
		Brodie tells us how to disinfect our minds of those which are, and he concludes the book on an optimistic note with proposals for "quality of life" viruses which would revolutionise education and society.
	www.hypnosis.org /kni-virusr.htm (809 words)

	Virus of the Mind
		Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science.
		In Virus of the Mind, Richard Brodie carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins,
		Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives.
	www.memecentral.com /votm.htm (334 words)

	Off Topic - Perpetuating mind viruses?
		To paraphrase Matthew 12:34 and 15:18, "Out of the heart the mouth speaks." You may not believe it at an intellectual level, but deep down, for whatever reason, you have, at some point in time, accepted it as truth.
		Changing heart beliefs is a matter of renewing one's mind (Romans 12:2).
		You can think of it as changing a bad habit - replacing it with a better one.
	discuss.joelonsoftware.com /?off.9.208476 (297 words)

	Google Search: viruses
		Tip: In most browsers you can just hit the return key instead of clicking on the search button.
		Computer viruses range from pesky to dangerous: Some display a message; others erase
		Computer viruses are mysterious and grab our attention.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/cis120/Google_Search_viruses.html (181 words)

	Corridor of Madness
		'If as some have suggested religions are viruses of the mind, then it might make sense to separate the components of any given religion into two parts.
		The first part being those things which are necessary to maintain viral infection and which assist in the infection of new hosts.
		This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.corridorofmadness.com /archives/000135.html (132 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Your examination of the viruses in the mind gets more and more subtle.
		Before, you didn't know, so you took your view to be knowledge--because you thought you knew.
		It may get a little empty, a little still, and you'll decide that that's plenty good enough.
	www.gruntose.com /Info/Buddha/intricacies_of_ignorance (512 words)

	Dark Pink Dahlia flower essence for dissolving memes, viruses of the mind, from the body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Dark Pink Dahlia flower essence for dissolving memes, viruses of the mind, from the body
		Memes are also often called “viruses of the mind”,
		“Memes”, also known as “viruses of the mind”, were first postulated by the well-known biologist Richard Dawkins, in his book “The Selfish Gene”.
	www.nmessences.com /essences/dahlia_dark_pink_fairfield.html (198 words)

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