From: Robin Faichney (robin@mmmi.org)
Date: Sun 18 Jun 2006 - 15:53:32 GMT
Sunday, June 18, 2006, 10:17:12 AM, I wrote:
> You're equating memes with meaning, which is simply wrong. You should
> go right back and read the last chapter of The Selfish Gene again. Or
> for the first time, as the case may be. I don't know where you get the
> nerve to lecture people in a specialist area of which you are so
> woefully ignorant.
For the second time in two days I find myself having to post a
retraction. Yesterday it was just fuzzy thinking, this morning I was
in a bad mood and over-reacted. It does seem obvious to me that
memetics is not about meaning, but of course some people do take the
opposite view, and it's probably not the case that simply re-reading
TSG would instantly change their minds. Dawkins was guilty of fuzzy
thinking himself, in my opinion, when he included ideas in that famous
list of examples.
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