Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA19958 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:14:07 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:43:38 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase Message-ID: <20010315154338.A632@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010315121703.AAA25685@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.34]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010315121703.AAA25685@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.34]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:17:03AM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:17:03AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Robin Faichney -
>
> >> - to the point of which I have declared, manifesto-like, "To a life
> >> without memes!" which, to me, is a utopian and ideal state...
> >
> >You might be surprised to learn that Sue Blackmore and I are in complete
> >agreement with you on that. Of course, we equate memelessness with
> >Enlightenment, which you probably don't. But then, what does that tell
> >us, other than that your concept of Enlightenment differs from ours?
>
> And I had wondered what one with a buddhist's vocabulary would think of
> 'a life without memes' since it is so seemingly identical to a life
> without maya.
>
> I would concur, also, that 'enlightenment' is a good word for this
> condition.
Picture me pleasantly surprised.
> And, yes, I don't think our concepts differ at all. This concept of a
> being at raw interface with nature is part of the hero archetype, after
> all. It is the beauty of the simple and the powerful playing together.
Indeed.
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