From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Sat 11 Oct 2003 - 22:36:15 GMT
I'm fairly sure just about any cultural phenomenon can be explained without
resorting to memetics, just as any math problem could be solved without
resorting to the Calculus.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
> [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Bill Hall
> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: memetics reference on news
>
> 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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> Knowledge is not wisdom
> Wisdom is not truth
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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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