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The dodo as an entity is indeed extinct - but the concept of a dodo - and what it means to be dodo - persists, as evidenced by this very blog post, and tweet. So perhaps, what it means to be a dodo, is itself an idea that infects other minds, which continue to propagate it...
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One could argue that the extinction of the dodo, caused it to infect more minds than if it hadn't become so. If it existed today, the dodo would have been just another bird among 10,000 species out there. How many of those do you pay attention to? So in a way the dodo lives on.
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But the idea of the dodo is not the same thing as the thoughts thought by dodos. Not even related really. That’s like saying it’s okay to lose relativity theory so long as pictures of Einstein survived


