Re: virus: Extrocranial Memes

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Wed, 12 Aug 98 16:08:52 -0400


>>But 'apparent' functionality- what an ugly thing....
>
>What the heck is that supposed to mean?

Yes, what _is_ that supposed to mean? That there is indeed _some_
function, but go buy a guess to what it is? Or, yes, it _looks_ like it's
good at doing that, but it only _looks_ like it can, it actually
can't.... [And my comment was about the second case, mostly.]

Once a thing (a mind, even, yup) actually looks like what it's doing, and
doing what it looks like it's good at doing, well... that could be real
beauty, couldn't it? In the natural world, form follows function,
mostly. The form of the brain and the things that work within it _are_
the mind. Yes?

PS- of no relevance whatsoever to the above- just heard in a new folk
song-

"Don't believe everything you think." [from a bumper sticker]

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