Fwd: Re: memetics/memics/mimetics

From: M Lissack (lissacktravel@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue 27 Jan 2004 - 15:43:39 GMT

  • Next message: Keith Henson: "Re: memetics/memics/mimetics"

    Keith:

    Google hits on Scientology 1,280,000

    > add truth 72,800
    > add fraud instead 22,800
      so I guess by the standard below scientology is 3.5
     times more likely to be truth than fraud?
     
    > --- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote:
    > > At 07:09 AM 26/01/04 -0500, jeremy wrote:
    > > > >> every few months somebody comes in here and
    > for
    > > some
    > > > >> reason tries to redefine "meme." I or someone
    > > else
    > > > >> generally pipes up, if only for the record.
    > > >
    > > >Given the current displeasure about definitions,
    > I
    > > have to ask: Which version
    > > >is more correct for the study of infectious
    > ideas,
    > > "memetics" (as has become
    > > >the convention),
    > >
    > > 137,000 hits on Google. Adding "meme" brings it
    > > down to 21,700
    > > Category: Science > Biology > Sociobiology >
    > > Memetics
    > >
    > > >"memics" (after Dawkins, 1986/1991, p.158),
    > >
    > > 68 hits on Google, most of them not related to
    > > memes.
    > >
    > > >or "mimetics"
    > > >(after Dawkins, 1976, p.192)?
    > >
    > > 18,400 hits. But adding "meme" drops it to 274
    > > (many of which look very
    > > interesting)
    > > (Also Category: Science > Biology > Sociobiology >
    > > Memetics)
    > >
    > > So from usage memetics comes out ahead by on the
    > > order of 100 to one (at
    > > this time).
    > >
    > > Commenting on the rest of your interesting post
    > will
    > > take more time than I
    > > have now. Will try to get to it this evening.
    > >
    > > Keith Henson
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
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