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Subject: RE: meaning in memetics
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From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
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> Richard Brodie made this comment not too long ago --
>
> >I don't know the difference between "explain," which you claim memetics
> >cannot do, and "analyze usefully," which you claim it can.
>
> Explain, as in define the mechanism. Analyze, as in create data for
> evaluation.
>
> [Explain- To offer reasons for or a cause of; justify.]
>
> [Analyze- To separate into parts for study.]
>
Explication, anyone?
>
> After all, very little has happened genetically to the human over the
> last few hundreds of thousands of years.
>
It has been recently theorized that a metamutation which allowed
the elaborately evolved (over the past three million years) hand-eye
coordination system to be hijacked and used by the mouth-ear
nexus, thus facilitating verbal communication, occurred within the
last hundred thousand years (or at least within the last quarter
million).
>
> - Wade
>
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