snow crash was written only one year after the ring, both talk about infectious diseases transmitted via memetic vectors
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Replying to @suchaone
Suzuki introduces the meme of thoughts as virus. This meme then infects and replicates in Stephenson. Snow Crash is just a mutation of the virus.
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Replying to @mitolilith
who knows where suzuki caught the infection or where it originated. "thought as disease" is probably a prehistoric idea.
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Replying to @suchaone @mitolilith
I agree but it makes you wonder, just how prehistoric? when, exactly, did language evolve? how about symbolic reasoning without grammar (proto-language)?
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