From: Kenneth Van Oost (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Thu 14 Apr 2005 - 19:54:07 GMT
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From: Kate Distin <memes@distin.co.uk>
>.......when you say that "nearly all" that's in you
> came from the outside, would you also say that nevertheless *you* have
> responded in an individual way to that input - in a different way, say,
> from how another individual in that same environment might have done?
> This is a bit of a tangle, of course, because from the moment of
> conception you have had environmental input, all of which has cascaded
> forwards to influence your responses to future environmental input - but
> is there, for you, an essential "you" that also has its input into your
> responses?
Kate, if I may intervene,
At least for me there is a ' me'.
The ' me ' I am talking about is and has been conditioned by past
environmental input ( whatever that might be and taken in its broadest
sense) and will be cascaded forward only due to those past ( and
present) input and of how I responded to it; although I think that
even future, yet to come reality environmental inputs do already
exercise influence on the ' me' in the present.
The ' me' responded in an individual way to changes, because there
is no other ' me ' like me, not genetical nor memetical.
Seen from the inside out, I do and I did put the ink in the inkpot in
the way I responded to changes !
Regards,
Kenneth
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