[Buddha-l] Can Buddhism "evolve"?

[jkirk]

"--they aim only to perpetuate themselves."  This is dead silly. does
Blackmore really say this? 
 
Memes, or habitual thought patterns, don't replicate themselvers because
they are merely idea patterns, without life.  They don't have the reality of
even an amoeba organism. What happens with or to them is dependent on the
living minds that make use of them. 
 
Joanna
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 ... Now the question that has arisen for me is this: if memes are simply
selfish replicators--they aim
only to perpetuate themselves--and all religious ideas and aspects are
memes, how is it that the 
early Buddhist memes do not replicate themselves as well as or even better
than the indigenous memes of the foreign society? Is this because early
Buddhism is less memetic? Or that the indigenous religious or social memes
are stronger?  ... 


Piya Tan




 


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