Re: MD A bit of reasoning (correction) - Meme

From: Jim Ledbury (jim.ledbury@dsl.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 20:09:17 BST

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    MarshaV wrote:

    >
    > Meme!!!
    >
    > There was something about holding and transmitting judgements and old
    > knowledge. Guess it was ridiculous.
    >
    > MarshaV
    >
    >
    > At 09:09 PM 10/18/2004 -0600, you wrote:
    >
    >> MarshaV asked:
    >> Couldn't a non-corporal thinking entity be a mime?
    >>
    >> dmb says:
    >> I don't know any mimes, but most of the actors and clowns I know are
    >> quite
    >> bright and I've heard that Marcel Marsceau was noticably clever. So I
    >> wouldn't doubt a mime's ability to think either. The non corporal
    >> part is
    >> much trickier, however. How could they walk against the wind and such
    >> without bodies? I just don't see how the traditional make-up and
    >> gloves will
    >> work without a face and hands.
    >>
    >> But seriously, I don't see how we can say that memes "think", not
    >> without
    >> stretching the definition of "think" beyond all recognition. I mean, its
    >> hard to imagine that ideas themsleves can do any thinking. Its hard
    >> to think
    >> of a thought that thinks or sight that sees. And how many thoughts
    >> would a
    >> thought think through if a thought really could think thoughts?
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