If we don't find ways to divide up a uiverse so large as that of memes
how will we be able to study it? I doubt that we can teach memetics
effectively with koans.
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> How do you appease a scientist ? Show him equations, make
> predictions, observe, etc... Be a good scientist.
> Have an open mind.
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> They must therefore be viewing it all as pseudo-science or proto-science.
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> Given time, memes will have their science.
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> Somebody has to quantify it all.
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> Or else most scientists (the number-crunching kind) will not
> believe a word they hear (limited memeset).
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> It is all linked don't you think ?
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> Maybe we should go META once more and try to quantify the variation
> from one replicator level to another ?
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> >From genes to phenes (phenotypes) to memes. All linked with time and space ?
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> Anybody in for that challenge ?
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I'm working on it in my mind, but I haven't been able to grasp it yet.
It's too big a subject to swallow in one gulp.
(Mixed metaphors are more serendipitous.)
Grant