Viruses of the mind

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The Denet boys and their robot toys
Come across like the bullied class swot
Smelling of soured milk of human kindness
Now exacting their revenge
By dispelling that which cannot be removed
There is no essence they say
There is only coding
There is only processing of symbolic data
Everything else is a delusion
Dawkins is almost right about memes
About how they have reconstructed the mind to be more comfy
In preparation for their imminent arrival
But he has lost sight of his own locked in syndrome
The poisoned chalice if you like
The question: Do you want to be vastly more intelligent?
Able to process symbolic data like you wouldn’t believe?
You do? Well great let’s get started
Just give me all that other stuff 
All that unnecessary baggage and go ahead
Leave all that stuff right here at the portal to the brain
Step right up
Brain world we’ll call it
Your intuitive sense that you feel meaning in the cosmos
Just dump that here and go ahead
Your understanding of how you are part of the air we breath?
Not needed in brain world check it in with Dan at the desk
Leave it all. Forget about it.
And hey if you get a vague recollection 
that you are more than a floppy disk reader
We can just put it down to sentimentality
No need to worry. 
The tooth Fairy, father Christmas, The Easter Bunny
Your guys will take one Hell of a beating in brain world.

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