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Brent wrote:
<< Crafted? I'm not sure if that is the best word to use, as it implies
purposive design. But, of course, scientific memes were not "designed",
they are the result of natural memetic selection. It is accidental that
science, or any other memeplex, is comprised of its collection of memes. It
could have been a lot different -- in fact it has been during certain
periods of history. Its just that science's current range of memes happen
to be more successful self-replicators than some of their competing memes.>>
Memetic selection and purposive design are by no means mutually exclusive.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com <mailto:richard@brodietech.com>
www.memecentral.com <http://www.memecentral.com/>
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