Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA06445 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:57:54 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D35@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:53:30 +0100 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
<Regarding all that followed in this message, sometimes the baiting
of the
> rabidly anti-religious just gets unbearably tedious, like here and now,
> which is why I'm dropping it. You're welcome to any consequent feeling
> of victory. You may even crow a little, and I probably won't bother to
> respond. For various obvious reasons, I think we'd do better to focus
> more closely on memetics.>
>
I'd disagree with most of the rest of this post, but I'd agree we've
probably worn out the current thread a bit.
I am curious though- to return more explicitly to memetics, how you
can view psychology as the discipline most appropriate for investigating
culture and memetics as appropriate for investigating individual minds. In
seems to me that the opposite is the case. Culture is an emergent property
of social interaction- so social psychology perhaps- but memetics, to my
mind anyway, is about group behaviours not about individuals. But this is
not an attempt to ignite a new batch of disagreements, so much as a comment
on our clear differences in approach, opinion etc. Skimming through
'Darwinizing Culture' (still haven't got around to reading it properly yet),
this does seem to be the case generally with memetics though, so we are not
alone.
Vincent
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