[ExI] Memes and ghods

[Keith Henson]

I originated a few memes.

One I can't track.  It's the one that has been on Mythbusters several
times, the car with a jato bottle.  I worked this out at the dining
room table at the Druid Studen Center in the early 1960s and spread it
around to a few dozen people as kind of a joke.  The reason I think I
might have originated it is that the stories all tend to be set in
Arizona.  But I really can't tell.

Another which I can track is the Druid registration meme that I
originated in 1961 during registration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson#Druid_prank

There are a few ideas I had that I didn't spread out as memes because
I thought they were not good.  Won't mention them here.

The "world as a simulation" meme I didn't originate, but I was a link
(as was Hans Moravec) in it becoming a cottage industry in philosophy
departments. The story was discussed on this list in the early 2000s.

Oh, how the character of this list has changed.  In the early days, it
was more about us becoming gods or at least entities with what was
considered godlike powers through nanotech.  I think it could be
summed up as "There are no gods--yet."

Keith