Message-Id: <199706301023.GAA05852@brickbat9.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:28:06 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: Is memetics necessary (Alex Brown)
Tim Rhodes says:
>If Memetics (with a big "M") is to grow into a true science isn't it
>necessary that it go through the awkward adolescence of evidence gathering
>en-route to the Holy Grail of Cultural Theory?
Yes, you would think so. At the moment memeticians seem to being heading
straight for the Grail without stopping to get a feel for the phenomena
they want to account for. It's not enough simply to assert a biological
analogy, define a few terms, and start pulling explanations out of a hat.
William L. Benzon 201.217.1010
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