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