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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
> 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.
In further support of your excellent comments, I'd add that memetics is to
religion as science is to faith.
> 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.
How so? How does engineering relate to memetics?
--J. R.
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