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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Wade T.Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2000 1:57
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> Subject: Re: Purported mystical "knowledge"
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>
> Hi Brent Silby --
>
> >It is hard to imagine a mind with absolutely no memes. It would be a
> >dull, non-eventful blank space.
>
> Or it would be completely free and active in all realms and to every
> situation, without the prisons and walls of beliefs and society.
>
> The world without memes does not seem dull at all to me, just the
> contrary- it seems edenic.
>
Ahh.. this interpretive mode suggests seeking perfection, clarity rather
than 'interference'... single context thinking... perhaps even the
'eternal'? In its purest sense this takes you back to the pure gene -- basic
stimulus/response with ease and simplicity -- very taoist/zen...
In this particular realm of interpretations there is a 'pure' position and a
'balanced' position, the latter favouring 'harmony' and so acknowledging
'others'. The former has no such acknowledgement, in this interpretation
there is only one context and it is 'mine' and so no recognition of
'negation' and so 'logic' etc since it is all 'faith', total trust in
oneself.
This is a very LOCAL perspective, self-contained with relationships limited
to associations with likeminded (often at a competative level). An
attraction to SAMENESS.
Brent on the other hand seems more attracted to difference, aspectual
analysis, the hidden, sameness is 'boring'...
Chris.
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> - Wade
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