Re: I know one when I see one

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 03 Nov 2002 - 20:38:25 GMT

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    > On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 03:03 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
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    > > I recognize that self-conscious awareness is a special emergent
    > > quality born of a quantity/complexity quotient, and, though quite
    > > common on planet Earth (although still comprising only a miniscule
    > > percentage of the life forms here), is exceedingly rare in the
    > > universe at large as far as we know. It grants us freedom of choice
    > > and some degree of imaginative awareness of the consequences of our
    > > choices, and allows us to view our interrelations with each other
    > > and with the ecosystem we share, and develop sets of rights and
    > > responsibilities to allow for both our own perpetuation and the
    > > perpetuation of our environment (and these are intimately
    > > connected).
    >
    > One of the reasons I get up in the morning (besides the promise of
    > coffee, the insistent bladder pressure and the sun in my eyes), is to
    > read things like this from Joe, which I immediately store in my own
    > little head and own getting fuller hard drive. And not one mention of
    > a meme in all of the above.
    >
    > Self-conscious awareness answers a lot of the questions about why we
    > do things. Genetically predisposed behaviors answer lots of others.
    > Somewhere, though, there is something else around us and behind us,
    > pushing us forward, or even pulling us back.
    >
    > Culture is the best word for it I know. But, since it is around and
    > behind all of us, is it not outside us? And if it is outside us, is
    > not its quantum unit (the meme) outside of us as well?
    >
    > These are the axioms of the pemetic model.
    >
    It's source and destination is inside; it's pathway is between, which is outside both source and destination.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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