Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA26222 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:39:28 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C79@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:38:49 -0000 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
<As for whether memetics (at least as I see it, where the ones in
your
> head or physically manifested in the world are just as much memes as the
> ones that are in the process of spreading through a culture) has more
> explanatory power than psychology/sociology in some sense; I think it
> does have, not because it covers new ground (as pointed out by Robin),
> but because its explanation is more compact, more generic and more
> consistent with other things we know about the way the world is
> (basically a load of systems which locally disobey the law that entropy
> increases, manifested as dynamic patterns, in matter, minds whatever).>
>
Not sure about your other comments Chris, but this point echoes
Dennett's foreword to the Aunger edited memetics book, when he says that
whether memetics as a theory of culture is correct or not, any theory of
culture that hopes to be appropriate must at least be consistent with the
theory of evolution, as culture exists in creatures produced by evolutionary
processes in biology.
Fair point well made.
Vincent
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