Re: virus: Logical beliefs

David McFadzean (morpheus@lucifer.com)
Sat, 31 May 1997 11:04:29 -0600


> From: Chitren Nursinghdass <Chitren.Nursinghdass@ens.insa-rennes.fr>
> Date: Saturday, May 31, 1997 5:30 AM

> if you accept the possibility of an autocatalytic set of memes,
> then you also accept that that "starting points" in reasoning
> are like axioms in maths. You just have to believe in some points.

I do accept the possibility of autocatalytic sets of memes. I do
not accept that autocatalytic sets have starting points.

> The very idea of an autocatalytic set reminds me of what we usually
> term circular arguments.

Only for very small sets.

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