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

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 16:59:42 BST

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    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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    Ooh... stirring up a huge can of worms here!!!

    Forgive me, but that's an interesting name, Trupeljak. Where's it from?

    (BTW, for me, a difference is that science has a non-arbitrary relationship
    to reality in terms of trying to examine questions of causality,
    demonstrable in its effectiveness in providing solutions to problems, and
    offering new capacities for human behaviour.)

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Trupeljak Ozren
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 7:01 am
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
    >
    >
    > --- Scott Chase <ecphoric@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Isn't there some sort of virus church BTW (see St.
    > > Dawkin's article in April
    > > 19, 1999's issue of _Time_ magazine, p 52-3 ;))? Not
    > > that this would
    > > implicate memetics as a religion. It's more like a
    > > fad (an intellectual hula
    > > hoop).
    > > >
    > > >--J. R.
    >
    > Check it out on virus.lucifer.com.
    >
    > What is the difference between science and religion
    > anyway? I might be discovering warm water all over
    > again, but both seem to be based on a set of rules of
    > perception that can not be proved within that set, and
    > both have a tendency to be exclusive of each other as
    > much as different religions are exclusive of each
    > other...When I am asking what is the difference, I was
    > asking about the structural ones; obviously science
    > gives us quite a bit more useful tools and toys then
    > religions usualy do...;)
    >
    > N.Sh.Z.
    >
    >
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