Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA25399 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:03:05 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745DD7@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:59:42 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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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