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On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Chuck wrote:
>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.
Do you think that to ignore something is to assume that it does not exist?
>I must say that sometimes I sense that
>your answers, while not indicating comma, are at least trance-like.
But your wit is razor-sharp.
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