Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA07352 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:27:28 +0100 Message-ID: <004101bfdab2$b3bb8cb0$6c5afea9@Chris2> From: "Chris Klopper" <syntagm@icon.co.za> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <20000620044954.AAA4594@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.162]> Subject: Re: Putting the method to the madness Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:10:52 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
I have always suspected that in terms of our ability to
<understand><perceive>
<comprehend><grasp>, there is something analogous to our ability to hear.
The ability of the normal human ear spans a finite spectrum of the total
sound spectrum.
It is my belief that certain things are <too small><too close><too
incremental> to grasp while
others are far too large.
I lack good examples of the former (perhaps for obvious reasons), but my
interest in political
science have brought me to the point of believing that the crimes of
governments are
potential candidates of the latter. I am not referring to apartheid (always
painfully visible)
or Bosnia, I am talking orders of magnitude bigger than that.
Chris Klopper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:49 AM
Subject: Putting the method to the madness
> Aaron Lynch made this comment not too long ago --
>
> >memetics may,
> >to some extent, face circumstances resembling those of astronomy.
Astronomy
> >deals with large-scale phenomena for which experimental manipulations are
> >usually difficult.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Much of the 'truths' and 'findings' of astronomy, while certainly, and
> heavily, mathematical, are also highly technological and 'other-spectral'
> - meaning, using non-human perceptual tools to gather data.
>
> And I would concur- memetics will flounder hopelessly until the spectrum
> of data is expanded and the tools to perceive the infra- and the ultra-
> of culture are found.
>
> - Wade
>
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