From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: implied or inferred memes
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:50:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <19990920023811.AAA23713@camail2.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.171]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Wade T.Smith
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 10:35 PM
> To: Memetics Discussion List
> Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
>
>
> >I would like to get an example of your kind of test in the case of NLP.
>
> >From all I know, so would NLP. Desperately. So would astrology.
> Desperately. So would any of almost all pseudosciences. But until then,
> they rely on and retort with the answer 'we know it is real because it
> works'.
>
> Memetics, it seems to me, is in a very similar vessel, with a full
> complement of plausibilities, relying on a voracious grab at evidences
> from several plates, but offering no dish of its own.
>
> The sad fact that so many correlational sophocracies abound is not a
> proof of multiculturalism among the sciences, but a proof of the endless
> faculties for self-deception spawned from our pattern-forcing perceptions.
Memetics was created as nothing more than an analogy. But for some there is
the hope of developing it into an actual science. But I'm not clear from
whence arises this hope.
>
> And that deception, so far, is all I see working. May memetics come on as
> a champion to slay this dragon, and hurrah for it.
>
> - Wade
>
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