RE: Truth at all costs (was RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter...)

Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:28:20 -0800

I would say rather that in Level 3, truth is a particularly workable model for a particular purpose.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf Of Craig Dolan-Betney
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 1999 6:36 PM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: Truth at all costs (was RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter...)

Level 3=
truth is a(n imaginary) perfect representation of reality that we constantly seek to establish through modifications/additions/subtractions of our approximations of reality (our meme-sets or reality-maps) ???
Craig

Richard Brodie wrote:

> Craig wrote:
>
> <<Would it not be better to say that truth is a(n imaginary) perfect
> representation
> of reality that we constantly seek to establish through modification of
our
> approximation of reality (our meme set or reality map)>>
>
> Yes, that's a very succinct description of Level 2.
>
> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
> Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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