Re: virus: MEME UPDATE: To Censor Or Not? <Allayhum on Dave

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Thu, 12 Dec 1996 08:51:00 GMT


At 08:05 12/12/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Dave Pape signed:
>> Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose (The more things change, the
more it's a meme thing)
>
>You've well manifested your deterministic view, only this final
>statement remained utterly unclear.

Yeh, it's my jokey email signature. The French word "meme", meaning "same"
(can't yet do the accent in Eudora) looks like the English word "meme",
meaning, erm, "meme". The French quote means, "the more things change, the
more they stay the same", and I quite liked the idea of the phrase "it's a
meme thing", so I tacked the bits of my adhoc translation together, for fun.

>In addition, what is the difference between memetic-determinism (memes
>rule our life absolutely) and religious-determinism (god rules our life
>absolutely)?

Well, with the memetic, there's no god, no afterlife, no "good", no "bad",
maybe no absolute Truth...

>Why is it needed to explain our life?

Erm... maybe it isn't. But I LIKE it, and being a bunch of memes, I believe
I'm bound to TRANSMIT the dominant memes in that bunch.

How could it be
>proven?

Dunno.

What's wrong with free will?

Nothing as such, in my opinion the concept of freewill is a meme along with
the rest of 'em. It's just I don't think that's how the world works.

>
>Lior.
>

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose (The more things change, the more
it's a meme thing)

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