Re: To be or not to be: memetics a science?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 14:36:46 BST

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    On 03/31/02 20:48, Philip Jonkers said this-

    >are the variables involved too complex to be isolated
    >for experimental study

    No..., however, the only way to effectively reduce the variables is
    totally inhumane and unethical. (This is true in psychology as well.)
    Computer modeling combined with selectively isolated neurological
    activity analysis and fMRI-mapped responses may be the only ethical path,
    and I think there is great promise there.

    I don't think culture will escape the laboratory, at all. Nor should it.

    Man is the measure of all things.

    - Wade

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