From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon 01 Mar 2004 - 15:03:09 GMT
> The purists/ fundamentalists upon this list,
and who are these?
> If those fundamentalists claim that everything has
> to do with memes
but nobody claims that, the nearest you'll get is the
assertion that memetic effects are widespread. A
memetic fundamentalist would (to be any kind of real
_fundamentalist_) have to:
a) posit cultural determinism - ie. that all aspects
of human social life are cultural and there is no
place for genetic or environmental determination, and
no or little culture/gene or culture/environment
interaction.
b) posit that all such cultural effects are analysable
in terms of either vertical, oblique or horizontal
transmission dynamics, subject to natural or cultrual
selection.
You can be a cultural determinist without being a
memetic fundamentalist, but being the latter assumes
the former. In any case, you won't find many examples
fo each species.
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