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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: The Status of Memetics as a Science
> I find little difficulty in distinguishing religion from memetics.
Memetics
> models and tracks the spread of ideas and beliefs. Religion is composed of
> beliefs (whether they are 'correct' or not). At a mimimum, then, memetics
is
> meta to religion.
>
> The only danger I can see to memetics (other than that it might be poorly
> done and waste time) is that it might give rise to an engineering
> application that might be misused ethically or socially.
>
We used to call it 'Propaganda'.
> - Lawrence
>
>
> <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.>
> >
> Vincent: Indeed, indeed. This is I think what some ignore, others
embrace,
> and some of us worry about constantly.
>
>
> Vincent
>
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