Hi,
Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com> writes:
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Eric, I really think you're taking this whole memetics thing too
seriously. It's like people who want to pass their hand through a
solid wall because they know that physics tells them it's mostly empty
space. There's a real wall, and there's a real consciousness.
>>
Actually it's not the memetics that is at the core of this -- it's the brain studies which I find so compelling as a falsification of level 3. If you haven't I recommend you read Blackmores last two chapters -- and then explain to me how 'consciousness' can be valid if it occurs *half a second* after the readiness potential is present. (i.e. if your brain begins to 'act' half a second before you 'choose' to do so).
Memetics is only the final clincher -- it explain *why* the brain and it's meme's evolved to give us this Cartesian Theatre: for the benefit of the memes. A meme which gets us to identify with it has an enormous advantage over a meme which does not. (and it is that advantage which "level 3" summarizes)
ERiC