Re: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science

From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
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Subject: Re: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
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    on 4/18/01 6:09 PM, Scott Chase at ecphoric@hotmail.com wrote:

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    >> From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
    >> Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >> Subject: Re: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
    >> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:50:21 -0700
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    >> From: "Vincent Campbell" <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    >>> Thanks we know...
    >>
    >> Sorry about the duplication.
    >>
    >>> (BTW, nice crack about religion...)
    >>
    >> Thank you. I consider religion one of the most dangerous and insidious meme
    >> systems.
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    > Religion is typically about following after entities which possibly don't
    > even exist. Memetics could be in the same ballpark, but I wonder if this
    > means memetics too is dangerous and insiduous.

    Of course it is. Like creationism, it distracts otherwise intelligent
    people from thinking in serious and useful ways.

    :)

    -- BB

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