Re: virus: Memes inside or outside heads

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Aug 17 2002 - 01:33:36 MDT


On 17 Aug 2002 at 2:58, Jkr438@aol.com wrote:

>
> [Joe] Blackmore is attempting to Buddhize memetics (it is her faith
> system). It is a strategy that cannot succeed, for good reasons. The
> central contention of the no-self school is that the belief that
> people have that we have selves is a delusion . . . etc >snip<
>
> [Jake] Whatever we may decide about selves, it simply has no bearing
> on any central theory of memetics.
>
And neither can memetics have a bearing on the existence, or
otherwise, of selves.



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