From: Menno Rubingh (rubingh@delftnet.nl)
Date: Mon Nov 08 1999 - 09:22:38 MST
Hello Patrick Wilken and Extropians,
I am a transhumanist and a memetics enthousiast who just joined this
mailing list (I've learned about Extropy from the Dutch >H group
`Transcedo' of which I'm a member) -- and I just want to respond to
this mail from Patrick Wilken:
> From: patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au (Patrick Wilken)
> THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
> BINDING, INTEGRATION, AND DISSOCIATION
>
> Universite Libre de Bruxelles
> JUNE 29th - JULY 2nd, 2000: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
> -- Please suggest other sample topics, or modify the above!!
There's absolutely no mention of *memetics* in your list of topics, nor in
your entire email. Aren't you missing something important ?
`Memes' are a big component of the set of things that make people work,
therefore logically the science of memetics should give at least some
insights into consciousness. Personally, I'm convinced that memetics can
explain *a lot* about consciousness. See e.g. Daniel C. Dennett's book
`Consciousness Explained'. (Yes, I'm a Dennett fan :-).)
Yours, Menno Rubingh (rubingh@delftnet.nl)
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