"'Memetics is a pseudo-science and no memetic study has produced any useful result.' Discuss." Very funny and surely worthwhile a dicussion here, too. Via LucasForums.
One response:
"Memetics is a very useful scientific field of study.Um...What is Memetics?
EDIT: Oh. Now that I checked...doesn't sound scientific at all, but I believe it nevertheless, as probraly so does Achilles. Makes sense. Memes (like Internet Memes) does spread, you know. But Memes can be destroyed, can be pushed back, can be forgotten."
Another response:
"Memes themselves would seem to be obvious things (units of information passed within a culture). Memetics as an evolutionary thing will probably need a lot more support before it should commonly accepted as scientific theory.To say that its pseudo-science is to imply that it is not susceptible to legitimate scientific study. Whether or not this is the case is beyond me at the moment. I guess I would need to better understand the argument before I could comment intelligently."
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So was the liquid calorific. They were useful constructs, provided an adequate explanation of heat, but they didn't exist. From what I've read so far, memes will end up in the same dustbin of history.
I believe pseudoscience is used here the same as astrology is a pseudoscience. It is a collection of internally (relatively) non-contradictory nonsense posing as a science.
... we'll see. I had thought that memetics died ten years ago.
Looks like memes, misunderstood or misused or even thought of to mean, "me me," it doesn't matter.
Memes exist whether people care about them or use the term or not.
And, as a marketing and PR professional, I use them on a daily basis!
I recommend you catch up on reading in the Usenet newsgroup alt.memetics.
We have defined the field as two sciences: memetics and memeology.
Memeology is the bricks and mortar of the science...the process of discovering the construction of the meme...what is its "DNA".
Memetics is the science of meme useage -- propagation, behavior...it is the phenotype of the meme.
Texeme.Construct
http://supratext.texeme.com
It is sort of your job to write a post like that. I have just created a platform for you to post the latest and greatest. I agree with Zorro, '"Science" is, in and of itself, a "super meme"'
sorry to burst your bubble, but "Science" is, in and of itself, a "super meme"
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