RE: virus: Memetical Axioms
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:05:27 +0100
> From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom[SMTP:eva-lise@eskimo.com]
>
> On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
>
> > Eva,
> >
> > If you draw memes controling you and I draw you controling
> memes...what does
> > that have to do with what memes do?
> >
> > Brett
>
> Everything.
>
> My mind is the phenomenon that emerges from the interaction of memes
> in
> the environment provided by my genes and circumstances. When I say
> "my
> memes control me", I am capturing one aspect of that reality. When I
> say
> "I control my memes", I am capturing another. The latter view tells
> me I
> can be selective about my beliefs; the former tells me why that's
> important.
>
> Eva,
> thinking of the Escher engraving of two hands drawing each other
>
Nice image, and here's something else to think about: the self
that controls memes from one point of view and is controlled
by them from another, is itself a meme.
Robin