From: David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 21:13:39 MST
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From: "Keith Henson" <hkhenson@rogers.com>
> I think this is an abuse of the term. Memes are replicating information
> patterns. "I" is not. You don't need to hear about some "I" meme in order
> to have an identity.
For an alternate (and somewhat controversial) view, see Susan Blackmore's The
Meme Machine.
As far as I can tell her Buddist memes cause her to want to reject her "I"
meme.
It is possible that you are infected by an "I" meme when you are an infant. A
controlled
experiement is very unlikely for ethical reasons, but there are cases of feral
children
raised by animals. These children miss the window to learn language (which
seems to be
limited to the first 3 years or so) and so never have a stream of consciousness
identity
like we do. They may have an identity like animals experience, but not like
normal
humans; they don't host an "I" mean in the literal sense of saying the word "I"
with
meaning to themselves or anyone else.
David
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