Re: virus: Rationality

jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com
Wed, 26 Feb 97 16:44:42 GMT


> From: Alexander Williams <thantos@alf.dec.com>
>
> There is a difference between transmission and reinterpretation.

But surely for something to be reinterpreted, it must first be transmitted,#
so as a quantifiably evaluation can ocurr.

> But
> since you get it ... :)

Only on Thursdays.....

> > A point I made somewhere else, though, was: Is rationality itself a
> > meme, or is the idea that there is such a thing as rationality a meme?
> > Is it one or the other or both?
>
>
> A more important question may be `does it matter?'

I think it does, becuase it makes the distinction between whether
the concept of rationality is a meme, which doesn't make a
difference, or whether we really are controlled by memes. Doesn't
that eliminate free-will?

Drakir