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>But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be “memes versus us,” because earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are. The “independent” mind struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous memes is a myth.
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>>8932451
I was born without memes and I mastered the memes that came to me, or I cast them into the fire. Shitlord Dennet is projecting
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>earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are
But what exactly is stopping people from becoming something other than that?
If we couldn't change ourselves we wouldn't be able to learn.
Where is the boundary of this metaphysical essence that cannot possibly be reprogrammed, unlike the rest of the psyche?
>it is not that the ego is all, but the ego destroys all, and only the self-dissolving ego, the never-being ego, the — finite ego is really I. Fichte speaks of the “absolute” ego, but I speak of me, the transitory ego.
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>>8932486
>i'm not addicted, i can quit memes anytime i want!
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This directly contradicts his claim that we can assess and select between alternative 'ideas', which is a pillar in his argument with Sam Harris about free will.
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>The “independent” body struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous virus/bacteriae is a myth.
Daily reminder Stirner wasn't against having ideas, but putting ideas above the wellbeing of everything else.
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