Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 01:03:54 GMT

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    >From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase
    >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:50:36 +0000
    >
    >On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:12:56PM +0100, Kenneth Van Oost wrote:
    > >
    > > You wrote,
    > > > Here's where Wade and I might diverge (but very possibly not). My
    >ideal
    > > > state is not one in which my brain contains no encoded memes. It is
    >one
    > > > in which I cling to and/or identify with none of the memes in my mind.
    > > > In other words, I don't "believe in" anything whatsoever. There are
    > > > only working hypotheses. This brain is still full of memes, but none
    >of
    > > > them are particularly mine, and all have to prove their worth in
    >purely
    > > > practical terms. (I don't claim to have reached that exalted state
    >yet,
    > > > but I think I'm getting there, if slowly.)
    > >
    > > << In a pure philosophical way you do still believe...you believe in " I
    > > don 't believe in anything whatsoever."
    >
    >Not necessarily.
    >
    > > But how will you prove that memes are worthly in practical terms !?
    >
    >The fittest survive.
    >
    >
    Bleck!

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