[extropy-chat] SEX! (Re: Martine Rothblatt and bemes)

[Anders Sandberg]

nvitamore at austin.rr.com wrote:
> Now that I have your attention - (Anders are your reading ..?  Robert?)
>
> Can someonebody answer PJ's question?  I want to hear your answers.

I liked the presentation a lot, and it was indeed the most visionary one.
But I have a problem with the bemes concept which is actually kind of sex
related: are bemes really replicators like genes or memes? Already memes
are problematic as replicators since they are hard to delineate from
surrounding cognitive structures, and bemes seem even harder to
distinguish from other "being-like" things. Units of beingness is a great
idea, but I'm not sure how to treat them. I think the concept would
probably benefit by having a few analytic philosophers pick it apart and
polish it.



-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University