David Rosdeitcher <76473.3041@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Tim R. claimed that for me to try to make an all-encompassing
> belief system out of memetics was just a way of unnecessarily
> putting myself inside a mental prison and he suggested that
> it's possible to live in a land without walls.
Whenever I think of a land without walls, I think of Larry Nivens
"Ringworld" series, where the protagonist nearly goes crazy because on the
ring world, there is no horizon... one can easily put oneself into a trance
simply by staring further and further off into the distance. Like vision,
I suspect that our minds are incapable of operating without "walls". They
are what keep us sane.
ERiC