Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:03:14 -0400
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: "Mark M. Mills" <mmills@htcomp.net>
Subject: Re: Meme Machine reviewed in Science
In-Reply-To: <010e01bed2cf$43541640$6c166ccb@ddiamond>
Chris,
At 02:45 AM 7/21/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Blackmore summarises (or should I say writes-off) emotions as:
>
>"It is almost a truism to say 'you can't possibly know how I'm feeling'.
>Emotions are private and notoriously difficult to communicate." hmmm... I
>dont think Hollywood would agree on that. There are very rich sets of
>emotion that are objective in that they are species based and without them
>we would not be able to communicate.)
Good point.
>Mark asks "What do you think is working to advance the acceptance of
>memetics as a science, something on par with genetics?"
>
>At the moment, nothing. Despite the writings of Dawkins, Dennett, Blackmore
>etc there are rich areas that have not been touched and as long as they
>remain untouched so there will exist a 'gap' in memetics that others outside
>of memetics will intuitively 'feel'....Well, I do :-)
Thanks for the answer.
I find it puzzling that Blackmore never mentions the words 'genotype,'
'phenotype,' or 'memotype.'
Mark
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