"Consciousness" and "matter" are memes. Consciousness and matter are not.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Robin Faichney
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 10:18 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Will
In message <025901be6bec$687e15a0$16a2bfce@proftim>, Tim Rhodes
<proftim@speakeasy.org> writes
>David McFadzean wrote:
>
>>It is interesting that you still maintain a belief that you are
>>separate from your memes, a little mind within a mind choosing
>>what to believe. Does your homonculus believe this because he
>>thinks it is true or because he thinks it is useful?
>
>The homonculs' name is Consciousness, and he prefers to be called by his
>name rather than spoken of in third person. (Touchy that way, I guess.)
Consciousness is a meme. But then so's matter.
-- Robin