RE: MD A bit of reasoning (correction)

From: MarshaV (marshalz@i-2000.com)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 13:04:09 BST

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    What is a meme?

    At 04:12 PM 10/17/2004 -0600, you wrote:
    >DMB said to Scott:
    >...you seem to be using it to invent a little intellectual judge who
    >inspects patterns at each level.
    >
    >Scott replied:
    >The judge is called DQ, until intellect appeared in humans, when it is also
    >called human intellect. (and later added)
    >.........Although DQ is involved in all judgment, one can also hypothesize
    >non-corporal entities of various levels and complexity doing the judging.
    >These would be such entities as Sheldrake's morphogenetic forms, or perhaps
    >what other traditions have called angels or spirits, or personifications of
    >species or forces (as in Amerindian mythology which has, say, Coyote as a
    >protagonist), and so forth. Naturally, this is all wildly speculative as to
    >where one says this is an intellectual form but that isn't, but a hypothesis
    >that there are such non-corporal thinking entities doesn't seem to me to be
    >all that unreasonable.
    >
    >dmb says:
    >I'm sorry but there's no nice way to put it; your position is ridiculous. I
    >had already become convinced that you're in way over your head, but now I
    >also think you're a little bit nuts.
    >
    >But that doesn't mean it hasn't been fun.
    >
    >Good luck,
    >dmb
    >
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