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From: Douglas Brooker <dbrooker@clara.co.uk>
Organization: University of London
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: solipsistic view on memetics
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> > but solipsists are forever implicitly assuming what they explicitly
> > deny, a self-contradictory inversion of the fallacy of begging the
> > question (which is assuming what one is attempting to prove).
> > >
>
> is there a meme that might be causing this?
>
People get caught up in the extremes of a position, rather than
taking the more balanced view of the middle way between. The
opposite extreme from solipsism (that mind is all) is the position
that some Buddhists hold, i.e. the doctrine of no-mind - the
doctrine that mind is nothing and that selves do not exist, and that
the opinion that one's self does exist is a delusion (which prompts
the question of, if selves didn't exist, what could possibly be there
to be deluded).
>
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