From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 16:03:57 MST
Ok, I'm going to bring up a topic and may get thrown
back into the dust for doing so but here goes.
Can anyone currently subscribed to the ExI list cite
an actual example where due to the list discussion they
"changed" their mind?
Memes are selfish -- they presumably have self-preservation
motivations and selection criteria. How in the blazes
can anyone offering an opinion on the ExI list hope to
"change" someone elses mind? Perhaps a way of looking
at this is that *all* debate/discussion on the ExI list
is completely futile -- i.e. it is *never* going to
produce a productive result -- it violates the "perpetual
progress", "self-transformation" and "practical optimism"
principles from the get go -- in turn it violates the
"rational thinking" and "self-direction" principles --
why engage in arguments (discussions) that you have no
hope of winning? [Key point being that winning requires
people shifting meme-sets and they (the meme-sets) are
going fight to the death to prevent that.] Are many
of the list discussions taking place under principles
of fantasy (i.e. that one can ever change another persons'
"mind" -- e.g. in effect "execute" a meme-set they may have.)
Should the list consider -- "Duh... It feels so good
when I stop pounding my head against the wall."
Robert
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