Re: memetics reference on news

From: Bill Hall (bill.hall@hotkey.net.au)
Date: Sat 11 Oct 2003 - 22:33:10 GMT

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    To me, the concept of a tipping point relates more to the concept of a Kuhnian paradigm shift, when the accumulation of acceptance and evidence reaches a point of inflection where the new paradigm becomes dominant.

    Thus, the applicability of the term does not necessarily assume an acceptance of a memetic interpretation of the nature of belief and knowledge.

    Bill Hall
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    ----- Original Message ----- From: "derek gatherer" <dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: RE: memetics reference on news

    > > Anyway is the tipping point idea of cultural
    > > transmission compatible with
    > > memes? Does it need memes to work as a theory of
    > > cultural
    > > transmission/evolution?
    >
    > My own interpretation is that the 'tipping point' is a
    > notional juncture at which a meme moves from cultural
    > drift into cultural selection (as Cavalli-Sforza &
    > Feldman would have said), or the point at which it
    > becomes contagious. This can only be identified post
    > hoc.
    >
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