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From: "Diana Stevenson" <dianaxf@hotmail.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Criticisms of Blackmore's approach
Date sent: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 16:49:09 PDT
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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.
>
This doesn't answer your question, but it is, I believe, tangentially
informative. The hermeneutic dialectic of demonstration and
imitation is found in the showing of heuristics such as tool creation
and use, and is isomorphic with the dialectic between explanation
and understanding found in the telling/listening and the
writingreading of information. The difference between imitation and
play is that imitation is the learning of how to perform specific
tasks, whereas play is the exercise of general physical
competence which may subsequently applied to many different
tasks. Also, imitation requires an other, whereas play does not.
>
> Diana
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