Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA15366 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:43:09 +0100 From: "salice" <salice@gmx.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:37:38 +0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Re: Genes are Memes Message-Id: <E15roUm-00050l-00@dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Well so you think that the mind is outside the brain? Where is it
> then? Sure noone can know ITS ALL A BIG ILLUSION.
>The mind cannot exist in the brain (or the brain in the mind) any
>more than water can exist in H2O.
I kind of agree, still water can't exist without H20 as the mind
can't exist without the brain. So maybe the "mind in the brain"
construct is a bit crappy.
> Well i don't know what you mean.
>Are you familiar with elementary logic? Syllogistic form?
Yep but your example has nothing to do with it.
If A -> B and B -> C then A -> C. Doesnt matter where A comes from.
> How do you measure a word? You're superimposing your
>idea of the world onto the world itself, finding things in it that
>clearly aren't there. It's a hallucination, a "mystical" vision.
Well i can find words in the world, if you can't i don't understand
how you can read and reply to my mails.
>existence. Nothing is *actually there* but material structure.
Yes but material structure isn't just material structure. I mean if
you can't differentiate why do you talk about anything anyway?
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Here. Some material structure on your screen. Just the same as your
words.
>The word you imagine exists in your mind. Then it exists in mine.
>That's it. There's no in-between.
And you call ME mystical ?
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