Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA07270 (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 12:38:41 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:47:29 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme Message-ID: <20010330114729.A1230@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D35@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D35@inchna.stir.ac.uk>; from v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:53:30AM +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:53:30AM +0100, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> <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 only meant to drop religion. I'm sorry you decided to delete what
preceded that paragraph, which was about memetics.
> 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.
I don't, and I've no idea how you could have gotten that impression.
Re individuals, psychology is infinitely superior, and almost certainly
will remain so. As I said, I don't really "believe in" memetics as a
science, and so I don't see it as suitable for investigating culture
either. As I said (again), it's primarily of philosophical interest.
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