Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:35:05 +1100
From: John Wilkins <wilkins@wehi.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Lynch's Memetic Theories about Masturbation (Long)
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <199706201550.QAA07252@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk>
>From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:27:16 -0500
>Subject: Re: Lynch's Memetic Theories about Masturbation (Long)
>
>Aaron Lynch responding to John Wilkins:
>
>John, thank you for adding your own call for scholarly rigor. I believe
>that quantitative rigor is part of what you mean by this. As a scholar
>commenting on this substantially quantitative discussion, I trust you have
>already read UNITS, EVENTS, AND DYNAMICS OF MEME REPLICATION at
>http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/mememath.html. Because your post called for well
>identified theoretical constructs, clarified terminology, and hard work, I
>now invite you to spend a bit of that work explaining how the terminology,
>theoretical entities, equations, and so forth in that paper might fall
>short of your rigorous expectations. I would be especially interested in
>knowing how, if at all, this symbolic and quantitative formulation of
>memetics depends upon metaphor.
>
>Thank you for your attention.
I should have retitled the thread for my response. I was not making
criticism of Aaron's book per se, for I have not yet read it. I was just
following up Tim's passing points with a hobbyhorse of my own.
However, I shall certainly read Aaron's material as soon as I am able, and
if I have any substantive comments, I'll make them then.
John Wilkins
Head of Communication Services
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
<http://www.wehi.edu.au/~wilkins>
<mailto:wilkins@wehi.edu.au>
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