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----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: objections to "memes"
> >
> >
> >Aaron Lynch wrote
(SNIP)
>
> I should point out that I have also been discussing the terminology
problem
> without using analogies to other sciences since at least 1997. Many people
> who have broad science educations will have learned their standards of
> terminological clarity from their overall exposure to sciences. Thus it
> makes sense to point out why "meme" has run into more trouble than new
> terms introduced to express new theories in other fields. Both quantum
> chromodynamics and the word "quark" were far more widely accepted among
> both scientists and lay people when "quark" as a particle name was itself
> 24 years old back in 1987.
<Aaron,with all do respect,you of all people should at least understand that
memes,taken in a wider view is more treatening stuff than quark-theory.
Memes and meme-theory are directly involved with our all day life,quarks
also,but they don't control us like memes do.People are scared to know that
they are not in control,they feel treatened when their ideas are taking
over.
"Memes" ran into trouble,as I wrote it in my last entry,just a few minutes
ago,
because people don't see practical applications.We need to focus more on
that.
Regards,
Kenneth
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