Recognizing parent's faces? You're getting close to the line where I ask
how you differentiate between a meme and a reflex or a heritable encoded
process.
I also think you are using the meme like the word "smurf". No offense
intended, I just have difficultly seeing how a useful concept can be so
broad as to include parental recognition and existentialism (aren't they
one and the same? [this is a joke]). Sounds a little like "god" to me...
>CONSCIOUSNESS IS AN ILLUSION! DID YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE?
Allright, now look. I'm a huge fan of Daniel Dennetts and love his
theories as much as the next guy. Nevertheless, the concept that
conciousness is an illusion is a philosophical extrapolation based on
Dennett's interpretation of a deverse set of experiments. The
experimentors, themeselves, seldom make the claims that Dennett does as to
the implications of their own work...it isn't their purpose. In no way has
this theory been "proven", nor could it really (though a number of
experiments may make it's acceptance much more likely). I just want to
point out that this is still a debated issue, not that I disagree.
Conciousness may be an illusion, but it may yet be of some use to us.
>Where do you stand on the free-will-real-or-illusory debate? Eh? Pal? Go
>on... mate?
Yeah, punk, take a shot! (kidding)
Reed
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