Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990419085951.00bc943c@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:59:51 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: RE: The "Zenification of Memetics" - neat phrase coined by
In-Reply-To: <2CDFE2C8F598D21197C800C04F911B200CAF48@DELTA.newhouse.akzo
At 08:46 AM 4/19/99 +0200, you wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aaron Lynch [mailto:aaron@mcs.net]
>Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:06 PM
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: The "Zenification of Memetics" - neat phrase coined by
>Lynch?
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>I suspect that Dennett has been too busy to get very deeply involved in the
>book,
>
>Incorrect there Aaron. Read the Acknowledgements.
>
>Derek
I have already read the Acknowledgments, Derek.
I see that Dennett provided "avuncular advice," and that he read an earlier
draft. As far as I'm concerned, this alone does not demonstrate that
Dennett was "very deeply involved in the book," and the Acknowledgments do
not claim that Dennett's involvement was very deep. Likewise, I have read a
previous draft of Dennett's paper "The Evolution of the Evaluators," and
provided him with advice on it. Yet I would never claim to have been *very
deeply* involved in the writing of his paper.
Still, it is only a *suspicion* of mine that Dennett was too busy to get
very deeply involved in the book. This is based on what he and others have
told me about how busy he has been in recent years--not to mention time
needed for his own books, research, and teaching. Nevertheless, if Dennett
tells me that he not only read the book, but also spent hundreds of hours
helping to shape its form and content, then of course I would accept that
as deep involvement.
Were you deeply involved in the writing of the book, Derek?
--Aaron Lynch
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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