Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 20:00:07 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: JCS: Of memes and witchcraft
In-Reply-To: <ce9c7c98.247af200@aol.com>
In message <ce9c7c98.247af200@aol.com>, JakeSapien@aol.com writes
>In a message dated 5/22/99 1:10:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
>robin@faichney.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>>>(b) Memetics might be responsible for absolving people of moral
> responsibility for their actions. As Midgley put it : 'Memetic reasoning
> decrees, then, that it is simply not their fault; they knew no better, they
> could not help it.'<<
Just for the record, that was Chris Nunn writing in a message forwarded
by me.
[snip]
>But some of the recent opinions expressed in the memetics community seem to
>confound issues of causation with issues of control. Midgely's response
>seems to reflect this confounding.
Could you just outline the causation/control distinction again, please -
- I missed your previous explanation. Sorry. But isn't control just
continuous causation?
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