Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA13901 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:49:41 GMT Message-ID: <B6E47FBD3879D31192AD009027AC929C3687FE@NWTH-EXCHANGE> From: Bruce Jones <BruceJ@nwths.com> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: meaning in memetics Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:52:36 -0600 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >but can
> >you not see the usefulness of studying something not particularly
> important
> >in itself in order to understand general laws of nature?
>
To me the study of memetics with regards to ideas and thought
processes, hasn't got a thing to do with nature!
Language and thought and their effect on the culture of origin are
independent of the original source. I feel .... my view ... that a study of
this type of subject can help understand how a social momentum can be
formulated, directed, controlled, or halted based on a study of the phrases
and thoughts of the individuals and the masses where they evolved.
You can not control or predict the actions of a single human, but
en-mass, man is highly predictable ...IF you understand the process of
thought evolution. If this is mastered or at least only partially
understood we will be a long way along the road to understanding humans.
We may even develop a Harry Selton mentality!
BJ
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