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Joe,
I like to answer your remark with yes,that is maybe what memes want us to
believe too,but I won't.
According to the insight of the memes in themselves grows larger how inferior
becomes the role of our body.In that case memes are part of a memetic con-
sciousness,a conscient memepool.
Anyhow,men_as we know them,will then long be gone,but memes will go on.
Memes in the conscient memepool,will not loose their possiblity to behold
themselves_they will have " memorized " all of the possible insights to look
upon themselves,to admire themselves,to learn,to understand,to improve...
to replicate,vary and thus evolve and that includes,then,the insight to be self-
conscient.
It may be far-fetched,but may we say Memetician Beings!?
The above mentioned ideas are also found by Blackmore Susan/Richard Bond
argue the case Out of our minds Are ideas self replicating?
Quote,
>Memes are spreading more and more quikly and the technology we have
created ensures they will be ever quicker next year....So could all these com-
puters,net servers and web sites be the creation of the selfish memes? And if
so will our old-fashioned biological brains one day be obsolete?<
End quote.
I think,to the extreme they will !!!
Regard,
Kenneth
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