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From: Chris Lees <chrislees@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: solipsistic view on memetics
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> Hi Joe,
>
> >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).
>
> And for an eternity, the zen masters have been supplying the answer
> (to deaf ears mostly) which is, if I am not mistaken, very roughly and
> approximately, " Mu !"
>
No, it was "Wu!", which is more than a negative answer, it is a
rejection of the question. That's like invoking God or different
dimensions to foreclose further questioning; a mystical and anti-
intellectual response, indeed.
>
> C.L.
>
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