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Robin Faichney wrote:
> As often happens, I thought of a neat answer to something I saw here,
> long after deleting the message and shutting down the machine.
>
> Anyway, for the doubters among us, memetics explains the spread of
> patterns of behaviour through a population without invoking the
> subjective spectre of the mind, without involving either consciousness
> or free will.
And of course. That's the point of memetics - and why it is so
unconvincing. I suppose you could imagine that we communicate with each
other on this listserv in a coma. I must say that sometimes I sense that
your answers, while not indicating comma, are at least trance-like.
> But don't worry, it doesn't compromise your freedom,
I don't worry about such things.
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