Criticisms of Blackmore's approach

From: Diana Stevenson (dianaxf@hotmail.com)
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From: "Diana Stevenson" <dianaxf@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Criticisms of Blackmore's approach
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    Recently Richard Brodie wrote:

    <<Beyond that, imitation is only a small part of memetics, one that
    Blackmore
    focuses on and has been criticized for. I think many of the interesting ways
    memes spread cannot be classified as imitation, but rather teaching and
    learning or even unwitting conditioning.>

    Does anyone on the list know of any published criticism of Blackmore's focus
    on imitation only, or any idea of where in the list archives I can find this
    discussion? It would be useful for me to have some sources for this.

    Diana
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