From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:01:00 -0400
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Gatherer, D. (Derek)
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:27 AM
> To: 'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'
> Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> > Aaron:
> > "Internal memes"? How about just calling them *thoughts*?
> >
> > Derek:
> > No, for 2 reasons:
> > a) because, then my thesis would be "there are no thoughts"
>
> Aaron:
> Why so?
>
> Derek:
> Obviously
>
> IF my thesis = there are no internal memes
> AND internal meme = thought
> THEN my thesis = there are no thoughts
>
> Such a thesis is incorrect. Therefore, internal memes are not = thoughts
Or else you thesis is false. One can argue anything from definition.
But do you really deny that people have ideas which they share?
>
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