Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 01:57:47 -0400
From: Dr I Price <PEWLEYFORT@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Genetics/Memetics analogy
To: "INTERNET:memetics@mmu.ac.uk" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Bill on memes
>But when it comes to defining the buggers, we're all
over the map. And I don't see that any of us has such a compelling
vision of what they are that there can be meaningfull agreement. <
Yeah but thats life. Multi-celled technology was all over the map at the
time of the Burgess Shale and most schools of scholastic debate still are=
all over their respective maps.
>The replicator of what? Neuronal patterns? & how does this replicator
get from one brain to another, the Vulcan Mind Meld?>
Of itself.
How does any idea implant itself in your head?
>How do paradigms maintain groups? What is the administrative structure
of a paradigm? How do they enforce discipline>
I forget who it was said paradigms change when the old guard fiinally die=
s
or retires. Try making a career in science in a school where the professo=
r
is still wedded to the old paradigm, or the editor of the journal or
=2E.......... Scrarch a set of Unwritten Rules and an informal power
structure and you will find various paradigms.
Or so say I and I say it with apologies to anyone who finds me repetitive=
=2E
If
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