What do you think?

I must first congradulate you on your contributions. All were very thoughtful and well written and most quite long! Anyway, I've made a small selection for you of some of the ones I thought were the most insightful. I will let you comment freely on them - that is they won't be filtered.

I think the comment that is most intriguing comes from Mathias - particularly his last few words. Here, and if I understand him correctly and I'm not putting words in his mouth, he carries the meme - gene analogy very far.

Working on the premise that genes and memes follow the same algorithm and hence evolve, (just as Darwin deduced that we and all life forms have descended from a common biological ancestor and wondered what might this creature have looked like), Mathias asks indirectly what was the 'common ancestor' of our present day ideas?

In other words what was the archetypal meme?

What do you think?

(You should see your comment straight away this time)

regards

Ray

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