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> just like some people's desire to teleport cannot possibly be memetic, because it doesn't exist. In general I agree with your criticism, but on this point I
by AnimalMuppet 3y ago
> just like some people's desire to teleport cannot possibly be memetic, because it doesn't exist.
In general I agree with your criticism, but on this point I think you are off. The desire to teleport could be mimetic - I could learn it from someone else's desire, not from their reality.
- lores 3y agoYou could indeed - and I could have been a lot clearer; that bit was just to point out that at least someone in the fairly recent past must have had an original desire. Or, at least, I do not know of any medieval text lamenting the lack of teleportation.