From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 10:17:53 GMT
Well I am pleased to see some things never change, restores my faith in human cussedness. Seeing both of you have been around since year dot, and I have been out of the loop for a couple of years, I thought that one or both of you might like to update me on the progress that has been on this topic. Or do we still have the behavourists v's the substantialists? PS: Voltaire sucks. Have you ever actually read his work!?
Regards,
Bruce Howlett
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From: derek gatherer
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Standard definition
Aaron:
But don't let me retard your work. Do publish those
data you collected 4 years ago on how rule changes
in football have influenced players' behaviour, for
instance. Or tell us where to find it published. I
never meant to discourage this work,
Derek:
Ah unfortunately, I decided the data I collected were
not strong enough to merit publication. I had to
leave the university just at that time, and my access
to the video analysis software was cut off. I could
of course have written a thought contagionist analysis
of football, in which case I wouldn't really have
required any data, but I leave that to those who are
better qualified. That's the trouble with being an
empiricist, you see, one is so constrained by that
annoying necessity to actually have some evidence.
Aaron:
arguments, or even my more serious ogoing work. I
like to
think that even people who are "mouth-foamingly
angry" can
cool off enough to finish the tasks they have
chosen.
Derek:
Oh actually I find it quite invigorating. A bit of
passion in any task is often the thing needed to get
it going. I think I can honestly say that, if it
hadn't been for your consistent goading all these
years, I probably would have lost interest and gone
back to something more biological. So I have to thank
you for that, to paraphrase Voltaire, if you didn't
exist I'd need to invent you (although of course I'm
no Voltaire).
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