Subject: Re: FW: applied memetics
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 98 09:44:25 -0600
From: Mark Mills <mmills@fastlane.net>
To: "Memetics List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <E0zEaZv-0004el-00@dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk>
>By analogy, let's take martial arts. There's a school called Gracie
>Jiu-Jitsu that claims to be the most effective form of realistic street
>self-defense. Do we have to subject Gracie fighters to scientific testing
>with peer-review published papers? Or can we just take 10 of Gracie's
>elected best, stick them in a ring with one on one matches against fighters
>selected by other schools, deemed by THOSE schools to be the best, and then
>see who kicks whose buttocks in?
This is an interesting point. At some point applied memetics and
'academic' memetics need to come to terms with each other.
I don't think there are any PhD's in kick-boxing. This is probably a
feature of funding difficulties rather than interest.
In the advertising world, probably the closest thing to applied memetics,
there are PhD's in 'allied' fields of study, but the linkage is a bit
weak.
Mark
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