RE: back to basics

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 29 May 2003 - 00:35:47 GMT

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    >From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: RE: back to basics
    >Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:44:58 -0700
    >
    >Lawry wrote:
    >
    ><<Hi Richard, yes, I think it must have been over a year ago, several
    >members
    >of the list specified that memetic engineering was not possible.>>
    >
    >Perhaps we ought to split this into two lists, one for people interested in
    >memetics and one for people who wish to argue that memetics is stupid and
    >useless.
    >
    >
    That would be swell. Then the memeticists could get on with uncritical speculating without worry of detractors.

    If memetics doesn't start generating more self-critical unbiased types that hold *ideas* at arms length or devil advocates that try to poke holes in the theories, all that may emerge is a mutual admiration society.

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