Re: The Demise of a Meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 13:39:28 GMT

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    On 03/21/01 05:03, Robin Faichney said this-

    >I think you're confusing
    >personal insight with scientific discovery.

    I don't differentiate the two.

    But-

    >Science [in its full process] is a
    >set of memeplexes that, ideally, reflect reality exactly, but in practice
    >are always vulnerable to being found imperfect.

    - yes.

    And nothing else is.

    - Wade

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