RE: The Demise of a Meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 01:21:45 GMT

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    Hi Richard Brodie -

    >People have died to propagate the memes of
    >science.

    No, they didn't die because they did science, they died because science
    led them to a truth that their ethics demanded they fight for.

    Science, to me, and I will and would need a terrific force to move me
    from this mountain, is the way to find what is, and no meme, possibly
    even no language, is required to find a working element of nature.

    Once you've found truths about what is, (and I would need considerable
    pushing to take me off the mountain of thinking science is the only way
    to do that), you can wrap whatever memes you want around them you want.

    Wrap them in colleges, and schools, and guilds, and religions, and clubs,
    and jargon, if you want. But the truths remain, findable.

    "Every fact is backed up by the whole universe." - Lemuel K. Washburn

    And whatever wants to find one, can. I would contend that the memeless
    'eureka' state, is required, and that is what science is to me- this
    discovery, and I really, really, don't think discovery is possible with a
    meme in the way.

    - Wade

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