Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA20990 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:38:13 GMT Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:24:48 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme Message-ID: <20010323112448.B1120@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <F63xOjmfCHJr1Wtyi6700003c28@hotmail.com> <3ABA448D.5357.193296E@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3ABA448D.5357.193296E@localhost>; from joedees@bellsouth.net on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:29:33PM -0600 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:29:33PM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2001, at 18:42, Scott Chase wrote:
>
> > >Where does delusion stop and the self begin...?
> > >
> > It's the illusory "self" which happens to be deluded. An illusion
> > succumbs to delusion. Perhaps someone could craft a poem out of that.
> >
> how can something that is not real succumb to anything, much
> less the delusion that it is real? Answer: it can't.
It's obviously contradictory to say that an illusory thing can be
deluded. But perhaps reality is little more complicated: if the self
was sometimes real, and sometimes unreal, depending on the context and
therefore the exact meaning of the word, then I believe all these
contradictions could be resolved.
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