RE: Toggling nature's auto-erase

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 14:19:42 GMT

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            Hi Wade,

            i concur with your other comments, but this comment raises an
    interesting question.

            <... meme reduction, while seemingly a good thing- how is it
    possible?

    > And this is where I turn to the rational and the skeptical, and to
    > Occam's razor, because, like you say "memes are [not] universally
    > malevolent", but, science doesn't have any.>
    >
            Are you saying here that science is meme-free? Or just it has no
    malevolent memes? Not sure if it's the first, I'd agree if it's the latter.

            Anyway, I'm still not sure that meme-reduction and freedom are
    necessarily related. It depends on the memes, and that depends upon the
    perspective/attitude one has towards them.

            Vincent

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