[extropy-chat] Just curious, it's not natural!

[pjmanney]

>Robert writes
>
>> On 10/31/06, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>>
>> > But what happened to *me* in there?   I'm more than my memes, pal.
>> > Don't forget my memories.
>
>> Well memories are memes and at least some of them are essential
>> components of the survival and reproduction processes.
>
>Memories are memes???  That does violence to the concept so far
>as I understand it.  Memories are more like raw data; for one thing,
>they're very seldom contagious.  Beliefs are something else, and
>are indeed memetic.
>
>> > That's me, maybe.  I don't want to "become", especially if the end 
>> > product is not me.  I would rather "are".  As you put it.

What about Martine Rothblatt's concept of "bemes?"

www.imminst.org/conference/Martine.ppt

PJ