Re: DS syndrome

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 21 May 2003 - 17:08:44 GMT

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    > >From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
    > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > >Subject: Re: DS syndrome
    > >Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 07:30:35 -0400
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    > >On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Joe wrote:
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    > >>If a person dogmatically insists that 2 + 2 = 5, it is a duty of
    > >>knowledgeable others, not a fault of theirs, to point out that they
    > >>really = 4, lest the mathematically deficient believe and spread the
    > >>fallacious meme. That's the way selection works.
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    > >As Richard would be wont to point out, the correctness of a thing in
    > >no way determines its probability of selection or distribution.
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    > You are correct, but probably, in the present context, selected
    > against.
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    > When a group has, in general, a predisposing bias in favor of an
    > alluring concept, they will likely tend to select against criticism of
    > this concept, regardless of the correctness of their cherished belief.
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    Here Scott is wrong. Memetics has hopes of being a science. Correctness is indeed selected for in this field, by the Verification Principle and peer review.
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