Meme Pools, World 3, and Averroës's Vision of Immortality

Dawkins's concept of the meme pool, essentially equivalent to Popper's World 3, is considered as an expression in modern terms for what Averroës knew as the active intellect, an immortal entity feeding into, or even creating, the passive intellect of consciousness. A means is thus provided...

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Main Author: Gatherer, Derek (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1998
In: Zygon
Year: 1998, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-219
Further subjects:B Karl Popper
B Richard Dawkins
B Consciousness
B Averroës
B Immortality
B meme pool
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