Re: James W Polichak's article Memes-what are they good for?

From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon 03 Nov 2003 - 09:01:17 GMT

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    and a few threads derived from those two:

    http://cfpm.org/~majordom/memetics/old/1986.html and: http://cfpm.org/~majordom/memetics/old/1910.html

    actually I think these two are the better threads
    (although one has only one message in it)

     --- derek gatherer <dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
    > There have been a couple of threads about this
    > article, a recent one:
    > http://cfpm.org/~majordom/memetics/2000/15375.html
    > and one at the time of its appearance:
    > http://cfpm.org/~majordom/memetics/old/1901.html
    >
    >
    > --- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote: > I
    > missed reading this article when it first came out
    > > and was recently
    > > pointed to it.
    > >
    > > I wrote the Skeptic Magazine where it first came
    > out
    > > and got permission to
    > > post the whole thing here for comment.
    > >
    > > Unfortunately it is too large to fit through the
    > > size filter.
    > >
    > > It is here
    > >
    > >
    >
    http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:9W2ewxvnAAcJ:www.arts.unsw.edu.au/hps/sts_core_links/coursessubjects/subjects-details/scts_page/evol_future_site/sts_evol_future_subject/sts_evol_future_reader_folder/Polichak_%2520James%2520W.%2520Memes+Polichak+memetics&hl=e=UTF-8
    > >
    > > Should I cut it in several pieces to comment on
    > it?
    > >
    > > Keith Henson
    > >
    > > PS. As a humorous aside, 13 years before this
    > > article came out I offered
    > > the Skeptics a meme article. They were skeptical.
    >
    > > :-)
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
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    > > This was distributed via the memetics list
    > > associated with the
    > > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of
    > > Information Transmission
    > > For information about the journal and the list
    > (e.g.
    > > unsubscribing)
    > > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    > >
    >
    >
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