Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA29261 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:50:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Modes of transmission Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:46:18 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F120WKSktgy5qzF3Q3K00020bb2@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jan 2002 15:46:18.0730 (UTC) FILETIME=[1AC324A0:01C19F6E] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Francesca S. Alcorn" <unicorn@greenepa.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Modes of transmission
>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:46:34 -0500
>
>>
>>Yes, that is what I wanted to get across. The meme-as-behavior-only
>>seemed to me to be the only route out of conjecture and just-so stories,
>>along with the whole idiocy of seeing memes everywhere one looks. I
>>didn't like it. It wasn't scientific. It was pop lingo hand-waving.
>>
>
>
>Yes, but conjecture is fun and interesting.
>
>Just so long as you remember that that's what it is, and don't
>accidentally start calling it science.
>
>The theory of evolution was conjecture. It still is according to many
>people.
>
>
I wouldn't go putting the *fact* of evolution as witnessed in the biological
realm in the same basket as the conjectures of memetic theory as
uncritically assumed in the realm of cultural phenomena.
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