From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Memetic engineering challenge
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 03:57:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <378300C6.3167@easynet.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Chris Lees
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:25 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Memetic engineering challenge
>
>
> Aaron wrote :
>
> > > Woohoo! Tremendous. Go for it Aaron !
> > Translation: No interest.
>
> Oh dearie me, Aaron. You've got a problem, havn't you ?.
> I'm really not nearly as bitter and sarcastic as you are.
> You shouldn't judge me by your standards. I meant it
> exactly as I said it. I think it's a great idea !
> Applied memetics. Set it up scientifically, according
> to the criteria you mentioned in your criticisms of
> C. Lofting's work, so we can evaluate it, and I'll be most
> impressed. Honestly ! ;->
Heck, I'll be impressed if I can do that!!! I only set a goal, a challenge,
a problem; since you expressed interest in one. I hoped that others of you
might advise. In fact, I'd still expect a great deal of work merely on
better defining and choosing goals.
And I fear that Applied Memetics will have a long way to go as a science. If
it can even be approximated for any practical application, that will be a
triumph. The best and closest I know of in actuality is still Transactional
Analysis. And of course, Propaganda. Merging the two might even make some
starting point.
>
> Chris.
> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
>
>
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