Re: The Demise of a Meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 12:21:55 GMT

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    Hi Robin Faichney -

    >So is my claim about how I feel scientific or not?

    Yes, it is.

    >Ethical systems are no more memetic than is science.

    This however, loses me. If science is an observation without judgment,
    how can the basis of judgment, ethics, be similar?

    The facts (science) need to come first, and there are no facts in ethics
    (judgments).

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