From: I.Price@shu.ac.uk (Ilfryn PRICE)
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:35:04 -0000
Subject: Re: RE: Papers critical of memetics
Aaaron states
:
>We do not want scientists such as Polichak to misconstrue that we offer
>memetics as a replacement to all the existing work in psychology,
>sociology, anthropology, economics, linguistics, etc., or as a replacement
>to existing work in specific sub-domains such as state-conditioned learning
>and confabulation.
Why not. One of the points about the memetic stance is that it offers us (as
Paul Marsden has pointed out) a minimalist heuristic which can unify
evolutionary approachs in all those disciplines.
If
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