Hi,
Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com> writes:
<<
I would say the hardcore of memetic theory is that people harbor
ideas, attitudes, and beliefs as the result of a competition between
replicating entities. In general I agree with you and Dennett that the
COMMON understanding of consciousness is false, but I'm not sure how
much that has to do with memes -- more perhaps to do with evolutionary
psychology and kluge upon kluge evolving in the brain to handle
specific scenarios of survival and reproduction.
>>
True enough. I tell you what -- I'm going to postpone this disucssion until after I've finsihed _The Meme Machine_ and _Consciousness Explained_. No doubt the concepts will be clearer in my own head, not to mention in discussion...
Till then -- guard your precious memes.
ERiC