From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: On Gatherer's behaviourist stance
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:50:38 +0100
Mario wrote:
<<The community of memeticists does not seem to agree about what
should be called a meme.Saying, like Paul, 'Never mind, and let me do
applied memetics now' doesn't
work. It is like chemists doing chemistry without agreement on what an atom
is.>>
>It's like the Wright Brothers doing heavier-than-air flight without
>agreement on the science of aeronautics.
Or maybe like Darwin presenting a theory of organic evolution without even
knowing what a gene was.
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Date: 14 September 1998 17:08
Subject: RE: On Gatherer's behaviourist stance
>Mario wrote:
>
><<The community of memeticists does not seem to agree about what
>should be called a meme.Saying, like Paul, 'Never mind, and let me do
>applied memetics now' doesn't
>work. It is like chemists doing chemistry without agreement on what an atom
>is.>>
>
>It's like the Wright Brothers doing heavier-than-air flight without
>agreement on the science of aeronautics.
>
>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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>
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