Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA13279 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:26:26 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745A3B@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: empirical "memetics" Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:24:14 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Fair enough.
(but define 'learning' :-))
Vincent
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> From: Austin Docking
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> ----- 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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