From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:59:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <x8Xe4cAu8mz3EwZM@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:36 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> In message <000e01bef4da$1a491e80$fdb606d1@sbosmr.ma.cable.rcn.com>,
> Aaron Agassi <agassi@erols.com> writes
> >> I guess, if you're going to say everything is a replicator, then it
> >> makes sense to say every event is replication. This seems to be purely
> >> semantic, and I don't think it's worth arguing about it.
> >I have explicated hte bennefits of my view, i.e., that it's
> >nonjustificationality avoids the pitfalls of Essentialist
> nondefinition, and
> >allow a focus on the phenomena of memetic replication in and of itself.
>
> Brett, sorry, Aaron, I actually share your concern about essentialism,
> but your style rubs me up the wrong way, so that I'm inclined to look
> for things about which we can argue, rather than points of agreement.
What do you want from me? And is that my problem? I focus on a fine point. I
also address why the fine point is important. All right before your eyes. I
am at a loss as to why that isn't clear enough to put back together and
re-encode.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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