Re: Memetics - Blank Slate Liberals vs Hobbes

From: John Jones (jonescardiff_at_aol.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: 12 Feb 2005 16:52:33 -0800

The theory of memes fails completely. There is nothing in 'electrical
potentials' that can point out a thought. Let me tell you what is
happening here because it is clear that you do not know what is
happening here. We have a thought. Then we look in the brain for an
electrical potential associated with that thought. Therefore, and pay
attention, the electric potential is associated with our arbitrary
definition of what counts as a particular thought. The electric
potential does not 'outline a particular thought'. Therefore, and pay
attention please, it is impossible to distinguish between electrical
potentials for the purpose of telling us which electric potential is a
thought and which is not.
All the idea of a meme does for us is to elaborate upon the confusions
already inherent in a model that pretends to unite mind and matter.
JJ