From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 11:13:56 GMT
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From: "Wade Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:19 , Van oost Kenneth wrote:
> > Generalizin' behavior and than predicting what the next
> > individualistic behavior will be is in my book arrogant and shows
> > how much people don 't understand of what is it to be a human
> > individual_ moreover it shows how much people are willing to set
> > themselves aside for a proper/ better good... Aaarrhhh !!
Wade,
> Aargh indeed. Since beme1 is never and cannot be beme2, there is no
> generalizing of behavior in the bemetic model. There is location of
> similarity as an agent of cultural continuance, but, no, I really don't
> see much hope of prediction from _any_ of the cultural, memetic, or
> bemetic models, actually.
That is just the problem Wade !
Making models implies generalisation_ my take is that individualism
must relocate itself, it has, to spell it out, make itself a better
selective
choise. From there we can make ' individualistic' models, for each
and everyone of us.
Prediction would than be individualistic biased.
It would raise interests we all naturally feel.
Kenneth
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