Message-Id: <199904100112.VAA05776@smtp4.mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:26:40 -0400
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: "scientism"
At 7:55 PM 4/9/99 +0100, Chris Lees wrote:
>Bill wrote:
>
>> >Unfortunately, L. Gabora only touches what zen meditation is about in this
>> >brief and
>> >superficial way. There is a vast body of work - from Nagarjuna, to Hua Yen
>> >metaphysics, to Dogen, etc., etc., - which could be drawn upon.I wonder if
>> >anyone
>> >is working on it, and if not , why not.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're getting at. Whatever memetics is, it is not an
>> intellectually mature activity. As you can see from recent postings, there
>> is fundamental disagreement on the meaning and use of basic terminology.
>
>I agree memetics is not intellectually mature. I wish some genius would
>appear on this list and put us all on the right track in an irrefutable
>fashion.
Maybe s/he has and we've failed to understand.
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