There might be some rights issues here, as I am in the process of receiving permission for posting this 1 page article from the Law Group who published this. That being said, no offense… but we have all talked about intellectual privacy versus memetic operations of data, right? Meaning…. good ideas want to get out. They become memes… just like music, jokes, fashion trends…… a good idea is not own-able, and will travel of it’s own volition and propulsion (some lawyers will disagree). It is eerie, because memes really subject us to humility that can leave us ideologically foundering: Does the concept of individuality or originality exist when it is the *IDEA* that seems autonomous, simply using the human mind as a vehicle? Is our living, biologically charged body simply a tool for the truly alive *INFORMATION* to move about, and we are a finite, disposable entity? How long was (more…)

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