Re: new review of memetics/sociobiology/EP

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 03 Feb 2006 - 08:41:41 GMT

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    Thanks Robin

    Nice to see you are still with the list. You are right about "hidden hand". I can't remember exactly where I got it from (David Hull?), but a quick check on google seems to indicate that it is from Adam Smith, and therefore probably means something slightly different to what I intended.

    Cheers Derek

    At 17:03 02/02/2006, you wrote:

    >Very nice paper, Derek, thanks a lot. One very minor point: in note
    >10 you say:
    >
    >
    > It is interesting that all four of these theories can use
    > (and have used) the following argument against their opponents:
    > 'You disagree with the sublime truth of
    > psychoanalysis/Marxism/sociobiology/memetics because you are
    > repressed/are a bourgeois/are genetically programmed to avoid the
    > unpalatable/have a mind virus.'
    >
    >
    >It might be worth mentioning that the generally accepted term (among
    >philosophers, at least) for such theories is "closed belief systems".
    >
    >
    >--
    >
    >Best regards,
    >
    > Robin
    > <mailto:robin@mmmi.org>mailto:robin@mmmi.org
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