Subject: RE: Whales amongst us
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:32:16 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Redundant with what?
Genetics, behavioural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy,
aesthetics, biology....
I can accept it if someone wants to and provides the means to put all the
above under a 'memetics' umbrella, but, so far, I do not buy a 'science
of the meme'.
Not that it matters a pair of fetid dingoes' kidneys what I think, it
don't. But I've really tried to see something convincing, and the more I
look, the more I'm drifting into the socio-biological camp, and wondering
at the useless and extravagant and unnecessary trappings erected so
flimsily by memeticists, or by those who call themselves such, since I
must also set up the tent on the side of those who say such a label is
totally without credential.
It's a nice map, memetics, but so far, I see only pictures of imagined
dragons there.
- Wade
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