Re: memetics/memics/mimetics

From: M Lissack (lissacktravel@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue 27 Jan 2004 - 15:33:21 GMT

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    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 and 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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