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Diana Stevenson wrote:
> Chuck wrote:
>
> <No wonder he praises Blackmore, a person who claims that fax machines and
> computer operating systems answer no needs -- (in other words, they are
> "useless").>
>
>
> The meme model is one explanation for why culture might work against
> biological reproduction. I don't think anyone's claiming it's a complete
> theory of culture.
Sociobiology itself is far more useful in developing ideas on why culture might
work "against biological reproduction." Since memics is based on a silly
metaphor, it simply has no potential to do what it says it can do. For example,
no one yet has explained to me what advantage resides in using the notion that
memes - whatever they are - are independent entitites that are in many ways
like genes.
I'm not sure there aren't a lot of people out there claiming that memic theory
is a complete theory of culture. After all, Dawkins himself says in effect that
it alone can account for variability in culture.
>
>
> Diana
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