RE: empirical "memetics"

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 13:24:14 BST

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    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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    Subject: RE: empirical "memetics"
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    Fair enough.

    (but define 'learning' :-))

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Austin Docking
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 4:12 am
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: empirical "memetics"
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    >
    > | At the risk of annoying all of those who don't like pedantic
    > intellectual
    > | smokescreens, I'd say this was an issue about what one means by the term
    > | evolution.
    >
    >
    > Vincent, sorry if my last post seemed just to be a sarcstic swipe at your
    > good self, it wasn't! I'm mearly a member of the great uneducated, lucky
    > enough to be reading the academic debate, of many great minds.
    >
    > However during most of the 'mystic' 'experience' and 'belief' debate I
    > failed to notice any approach to the 'abstract qualities' required for
    > such
    > word usage, and the 'academic style' seemed to be more about winning
    > 'brownie points' than learning.
    >
    > It helped my realise what a powerful meme 'academia' is!
    >
    > ----
    >
    > Austin Docking
    > Twickenham, UK
    > www.docking.org.uk
    > I got stoned last night -
    > told a Palestinian that the West Bank belongs to Israel.
    >
    >
    >
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