Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA04778 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:18:12 GMT From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> Organization: Reborn Technology To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: new line: what's the point? Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:11:26 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <200003012019.PAA08521@mail1.lig.bellsouth.net> Message-Id: <00030216132702.03748@faichney> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Joe E. Dees wrote:
>Date sent: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:48:51 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
>From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu>
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: new line: what's the point?
>Send reply to: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>> The point of memetics as I see it is a unifying bridge for all these
>> disciplines. As such, it will function much like genetics as a
>> referential basis for other disciplines.
>>
>> Memetics provides the best explanations to date for the selective
>> transmission of cultural information, whether that information takes the form
>> of meanings, of kinship relationships, of technologies, or of natural laws.
>>
>There IS NO information in the absence of meaning
You said that before, and I replied "Try telling that to a physicist", to which
I did not see any response. I'm still interested.
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