Re: virus: Virus Invades Cybernetics Conference

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:42:30 -0700


David R. wrote:

>But that people in the free thought community (as Eric
>calls it) have a certain type of meme-complex which includes a certain type
>of ethics. You might say, Tim, that you're a counter-example of such a rule
>but even your "disagreements" have a certain quality about them--a style
>that's part of the meme-complex I'm trying to describe. You are making all
>these 'a-priori' assumptions (assumptions made before any question or data
>gets evaluated) that are part of this meme-complex. For instance, you use a
>color by numbers method of looking to falsify my theory with
>counter-examples.The fact that you see things in terms of "theories" and
>"counter-examples" only goes to show that your mind is stuck in a system--a
>system with its own religion--a religion with its own idiosyncratic forms
>of behavior (like finding counterexamples)through which ethics get
>expressed.

Was it good crack?

-Prof. Tim