Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA10219 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:56:53 +0100 Message-ID: <00b101c1148c$43ea73a0$5afaf8c1@necdirect> From: "Pascal Jouxtel" <pascal@contagions.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <3B5B97FE.16524.1DF396@localhost> Subject: Re: Logic Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:02:00 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
I don't want to sound 'le français pretentieux', but I can -not easily I
admit - imagine a time before the laws existed, or a non-time before time.
Things become universal once nobody sane dares to deny them. A set of memes
which can enforce its detractors being called insane and not believd or
listened to, becomes so dominant that you can name it Universal.
I have my own set of laws :
1. A can be where nothing was. (Emergence)
2. A and non-A cannot be at the same time (Choice)
3. There is always a relation between A and B (Relation)
4. if A was, A can be again. (Memory)
If you have these four, you have made a world.
Bonne nuit, ou bonjour, ou bonsoir, selon l'heure !
A bientot sur / see you soon on
www.contagions.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Logic
> On 23 Jul 2001, at 0:17, Dace wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pascal Jouxtel"
> >
> > > Logic is one of those memeplexes so powerful that they have become
> > > absolutely dominant; dominant to such an extent that the very stuff
> > > of our thoughts relies on it, and that we don't even see them
> > > anymore.
> >
> > To say there's a meme for being logical is like saying there's a gene
> > for being alive. Logic is an expression of something more fundamental
> > than human culture. When humans are logical, it's no different than
> > nature being natural or animals being animated. Logic doesn't have to
> > selfishly propagate its own kind at the expense of all competitors.
> > It follows by necessity in the context of abstract intelligence.
> >
> Logic is simply a distillation of perception; in fact, the four laws of
> thought are abstracted from presence to perception, i.e., 1) If A
> then A (if it's (the object of perception) present, then it's present),
> 2) If Not-A, then Not-A (if it's absent, then it's absent), 3) Either A
> or Not-A (either it's present or it's absent) and 4) Not both A and
> Not-A (it can't be simultaneously present and absent. If such rules
> are memes, then they're Universal ones.
> >
> > > I suppose the same could be said of other memeplexes like the Self,
> > > and
> > also
> > > like another one almost invisible, which I should call 'the
> > > existence and unicity of reality'.
> >
> > The "self" is shorthand for self-existence. Organisms exist
> > intrinsically. This is in contrast to purely physical objects, which
> > exist only in relation to their parts, to other objects, to the forces
> > acting on them, etc. To exist in relation to oneself is to be
> > singular and whole.
> >
> It is tautological, but nonetheless (and actually a forteriori) true,
> that to be self-conscious is to be conscious of a self. Recursivity
> in a perceptual entity mandates such self-conscious awareness.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ted Dace
> >
> >
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