From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Wed 21 May 2003 - 11:40:58 GMT
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Scott wrote:
> Careful there when invoking the pink unicorn hypothesis
I knew you'd notice.
I think I was careful. I can at least point to the pink unicorn now in
my garden, since performances are quite tangible, but, yes, I don't
think any memeinthemind advocate can point to theirs, although, at
least they have a garden to imagine it in. As you say "[they] are
hijacking memory research and claiming it for memetics by merely
embedding the term 'meme' into a discussion of memory." Yes, they can
point to memory research, but, no further. Not _yet_, as they say, and,
let's give them that.
> One can accept that memory has a neural basis, yet be quite skeptical
> that
> memes have any basis.
Right on.
- Wade
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