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

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 14:06:55 BST

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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.>
>
Indeed, indeed. This is I think what some ignore, others embrace,
and some of us worry about constantly.

Vincent

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