The Balloon of the Mind

[Timothy Schoonover]

Was it just me or was this last chapter totally amazing? I would read the whole book just for this one chapter. The way the mind reconstructs reality is completely fascinating to me. I wish I knew more about linguistics and semiotics and the various theories that run contrary to the ones presented here to be more conversive on the subjects. I guess this is why I am anticipating Blank Slate so much.Even still, I wish I had a better understanding of where the experts differ on these issues. Sometimes it seems that the best way to understand something is to analyze its critics.

[Jeremy1952]

The best place to go for more depth of the ideas of the final chapters is probably a book Dawkins mentions: Blackmore, The Meme Machine. In his introduction Dawkins admits that Blackmore may have gone just a hint over the top... but its fascinating all the same.

[Chris OConnor]

I've yet to get to the last chapter so stop tempting me to cheat and read it right now! Chris