Re: Giving a presentation on memetics

From: Ben Dawson (dawson.derbys@clara.net)
Date: Fri 20 Jan 2006 - 22:26:02 GMT

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    Kate -

    Thanks. It was definitely one of the (probably *the*) most interesting modules I've studied to date. Which is slightly concerning because I'm supposed to be an IT student!

    Ben

    On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:35:59 +0000, you wrote:

    >Well done, Ben. You deserve this. It didn't become "easily the best"
    >presentation to date just because of our input.
    >
    >Kate
    >
    >
    >> Just to say a *big* thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for my
    >> memetics presentation in December. I found out today I'd got an A
    >> (combined mark for both the presentation plus a written component).
    >> Comments were:
    >>
    >>
    >> Presentation:
    >> Congratulations - we thought this was easily the best presentation we
    >> saw to date and this is reflected in the mark. It was delivered in a
    >> confident manner, you used lots of techniques to make it more
    >> interesting and it was well referenced and gave a balanced view.
    >>
    >> Wiki:
    >> The wiki pages are equally good - they reflect and add to the
    >> presentation and are very well referenced and illustrated.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> The techniques I think he is referring to are the use of props and the
    >> copying experiment - which were suggested on this list. I'm chuffed
    >> with this because it all counts towards the class of degree I receive.
    >> So many thanks for the input people!
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> On a related note, and possibly of interest to people, I had the exam
    >> last week, and one of the choices of questions was:
    >>
    >> What is "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and why does Daniel Dennett seem to
    >> think some researchers are scared of embracing it? [50 marks]
    >>
    >>
    >> And in looking through the past exam papers, on the 2005 paper there
    >> was:
    >>
    >> Could the key ideas of dualism be said to form the basis of a very
    >> successful meme? [50 marks]
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Ben
    >>
    >> ===============================================================
    >> 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
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    >===============================================================
    >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
    >
    >

    =============================================================== 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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