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Part 4
What IMHO have to be solved are mainly two things,
A_ the problem of the
other minds/ humanoid objects and B_ what is the
knowledge; what are in the
present case the memes originating from out those
minds !?
There can, in the philosophical way of this
article, only be one answer:-
since what I know to exist is the content of my own
mind, it follows that all
the rest has to be in some some way a part of that
knowledge. This is what in
philosophy is called ' the argument from
analogy '.
That is, I can ( infer) assume that the
behaviourpatterns/ the mental states
and the memetic activity inside my brain also
occurs and is present in others.
The problem with this view is of course the notion
that I should be the only
mind known to exist_thus, how can I explain the
presence of other minds !?
We did established that memes act in a solipsistic
way, we do know also that
the brain can ' t ' see ' everything in
one single moment, to give us a sense of reality it imagines a world together
out of memories/ memes which are then
projected in front of us as the characterized
environment where we at that
particular point in time live in.
In order to keep ' my reality ' vived
and up to date the brain is constant acti-
vily scanning the outside world, somehow it pin
points itself onto a subject, recalls/ reconstruct the info ( prior to the
knowledge of the individual(s) concerned and
the peculiarities of each situation), places the
whole into a context and throws it
back out again into the outside world as a snapshot
of reality of that moment.
A picture of our world, which we do understand
perfectly !!
But what about all the rest !? It is hardly
understandeble that our brain have
made up all of the materialistic things which are
surrounding us, even hard
and probably harder to understand is the concept of
the others, what are they
and what are they doing here !?
As indicated as above, the mind can only pick up a
given moment in time and
this abstraction is a small part of reality
acquired by the human being which I am to respond to different stimuli. All the
rest, then, has to be part of a materia-
lised memory/ imagination in order to shape, in an
understaneble way, that
part of reality.
The logical way, somehow, is to pre- suppose the
existence of an infinite number
of solipsistic memeplexes which each in their
direction, form, concept or relation
are part of mine individual personal and unique
memory storage tank.
Somehow, analogous to the memeplex of my brain,
they too, ( in casu the
others brains too) pin point themselves onto a
subject, processes the info and
send it back out again as a part of my ' reality
'.
This is given the nature of memes not possible_ memes has no ' forsight ', they can 't work independly from a brain. (
Experiments show however that
such conclusions should not be taken for granted )
Consequently, it follows that the others have to
be ' brains ' too, created by
memeplexes in order to held all of the primary data
which my brain acquires
to make up a secondary psychological concept which
ultimally results into an
image of my reality.
To take a concrete example:- most of my holidays I spent in De Haan, a coastal community not far from Ostend. Even before
I ever begin to pack my
things together my brain has already assured itself
of the necessarily imagetry, memories and aspects, precisly those fundamental
choises are made to get
me where I want to be ( primary).
Once there, and I stroll down the promenade, everything as I remerbered it, is there (secondary)_ people, houses, children,
toys, the wind, the sunshine...
but the question has to be faced as to how of what
I see is the same like
the last time !?
Some criteria are the same, others I perceive for
the first time_like people who I meet, situations which are
developing...The difficulty here, is to
understand this.
How is it possible that things of which I know
that they only exist as know-
ledge in my mind, change out there in
the external world !?
End of part Four
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