Re: Grad program on memetics?

From: Chris Taylor (christ@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 08 Oct 2004 - 09:34:11 GMT

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    Yeah good call. And if you _really_ want to go out on a limb, my old supervisor now works in Canada -- Paul Higgs <higgsp@mcmaster.ca>; he published some memetics papers. You could always try pitching him but make sure you have a clear idea of what the project would be (tools, data, timelines); and you'd have to go to Western Canada, which if you'd started to warm to the Scots thing isn't too much of a stretch :)

    Actually Canadians are a pretty sorted people (to generalise wildly), I can certainly think of worse countries to live in (per capita: as many guns as the US, as many gun murders as the UK [ish]). Just don't go into the woods with antlers on.

    Cheers, Chris.

    John wrote:

    > What about Susan Blackmore?
    >
    > On 08/10/2004, at 8:54 AM, Chris Taylor wrote:
    >
    >> http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/laland/seal/contact.htm but
    >> apparently he just moved to Scotland, which is an issue ;)
    >>
    >> Cheers, Chris.
    >>
    >> sabda nih wrote:
    >>
    >>> Hi everyone!
    >>> My name is paul from Jakarta, I think it's my first writing in this
    >>> forum although I've been reading it for some months. I've been
    >>> studying memetics and doing some not-so-serious researches on
    >>> memetics for the last 3 yrs. I wonder, is there any graduate program
    >>> on memetics, perhaps memetics studies, or applied memetics (I call it
    >>> memetics engineering). I'm interested in memes-based knowledge
    >>> classification, or applying memetics for
    >>> mass-education/public-education, or do a specific research on
    >>> scientific memes. Let me know if any of you ever heard of it.
    >>> By the way I have some unanswered questions on scientific memes:
    >>> How do you guys think of scientific memes? Can we put them in the
    >>> same group as other memes? I found several interesting behaviors
    >>> which significantly distinguish them from the other types of memes,
    >>> in fact it seems that in my opinion I can't claim them to be
    >>> selfish-memes which consequently they possess some non-memetics
    >>> behaviors.
    >>> Thanks
    >>> Paul sabda
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    >>
    >>
    >> --
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    >> Chris Taylor (christ@ebi.ac.uk)
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