Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA10285 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:08:55 GMT Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:01:29 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme Message-ID: <20010321170129.A501@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010321133939.AAA17786@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010321133939.AAA17786@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:39:28AM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:39:28AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> 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.
I recently realised I'd been an idiot, in the context of a relationship,
putting my pride first and everything else last. According to you, that
insight was either (a) worthless, or (b) worth publishing in a peer
reviewed journal. Which is it?
> 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.
So if I tell you I've been feeling slightly more relaxed than usual today,
that is either (a) untrue, or (b) meaningless, or (c) a scientific claim,
suitable for attempted replication at an independent laboratory?
Why does everything that's true or worthwhile have to be scientific?
Isn't that just scientism? Don't you see there's more to life?
-- Robin Faichney Get your Meta-Information from http://www.ii01.org (CAUTION: contains philosophy, may cause heads to spin)=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
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