Re: Criticisms of Blackmore's approach

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Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 00:41:07 BST

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    You could try my book review of it at Amazon.

    Diana Stevenson wrote:

    > 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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