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"Wade T.Smith" wrote:
> >I'm still impressed by seeing the fruition of some of the predictions
> >of memetics, particularly the growth of viral marketing on the Internet.
>
> Are these things, these predictions (and I'd love to see them and to see
> the results that verify them) really uniquely memetic? Have other than
> usual distribution trends due to intentional memetic alteration been
> verified? Where? By whom? When?
>
That's exactly my point. It seems like there is a predisposition on this list
to ignore other kinds of explanations. If memetics is supposed to be a
science, then there has to be explicit comparisons with existing theory to
see which theory has the advantage.
I myself have specified falsifiable conditions, but I haven't heard anyone
within the meme tradition specify this, and that's a standard tool of
science.
>
> - Wade
>
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