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on 1/11/01 5:58 AM, Vincent Campbell at v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk wrote:
>
> Add on to that the ways of seeing people are bringing from different
> disciplines in the first place and its not surprising that some areas, which
> may have been well researched, don't even occur to people to consider.
> Blackmore is a psychologist, Brodie a computer bod, Lynch a former member of
> Fermilab etc. etc.
>
> Surely the important point is that, if nothing else, memetics opens
> people up to different disciplinary approaches,
What different approaches? The people you've mentioned above have not, as
far as I can tell, made any new empirical findings or reinterpreted old
stuff in new an insightful ways. For the most part, they don't exhibit any
deep knowledge of things like history of ideas, art, music, religion,
literature, linguistics, cognition, etc. They just do memetic recasting and
speculation.
The memetic Emperor is absolutely without clothes. As far as I can tell, it
attracts Big Thinkers with Little Ideas.
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