From: "psypher" <overload@fastmail.ca> Subject: Re: virus: Re: Technology (was manifest science) To: virus@lucifer.com Date sent: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:52:48 -0400 (EDT) Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> At the conclusion of a very thorough post was written:
>
> > The analogy to evolution is weak. Conscious direction of the process
> > makes the "evolution" of technology something rather different from
> > the evolution of organisms, or molecules.. it's hard enough to make
> > the analogy between memetic and biological evolution useful, despite
> > the (in my opinion) greater similarity..
> >
> > -Engan
>
> ...what is it, do you suppose, which differentiates the process of
> our consciousness from any other?
>
Dynamic interrelation and recursivity? Self(and other)-awareness,
self(and other)-consciousness and self(and other)-reference?
>
> -psypher
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