You'll have to ask one of the Dawkins adepts around here.
You make it sound like you haven't read your own link, fool.
"Dawkins talking about memes is like believers talking about God - an invisible, unverifiable postulate, which helps explain some things about experience, but ultimately lies beyond empirical investigation."
Is Dawkins just a particularly eloquent nutter talking about things he can't see but that he "knows" are there?
Originally posted by Bosse de Nage You make it sound like you haven't read your own link, fool.
"Dawkins talking about memes is like believers talking about God - an invisible, unverifiable postulate, which helps explain some things about experience, but ultimately lies beyond empirical investigation."
Is Dawkins just a particularly eloquent nutter talking about things he can't see but that he "knows" are there?
I'm not sure that's the case. I think it's fairly evident that cultural transmissions occur, even in the most simple forms like the advent of celebrity, or fashion trends. There is empirical evidence of cultural imitation on easily accessible levels. We can call these transitions memes if we want, but what we label these as is of little importantance. To deny they exist somewhat blinkered I think.
Whether a belief in god is a meme or not is a far more complex proposition and one for which the evidence available is far harder to record and categorise.
Originally posted by Bosse de Nage You make it sound like you haven't read your own link, fool.
"Dawkins talking about memes is like believers talking about God - an invisible, unverifiable postulate, which helps explain some things about experience, but ultimately lies beyond empirical investigation."
Is Dawkins just a particularly eloquent nutter talking about things he can't see but that he "knows" are there?
SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP .... 😵
.... trying to be clever again, Bosse .... you genius ?
Originally posted by ivanhoe I know, Bosse ..... but the wind wasn't cooperating. In fact, the wind blew it ..... 😵
Here's the thing. You start a thread with a lengthy quote from an article that you don't even seem to have read. I post something in an effort to get some sort of debate going, with moderate success, and the best you can do is offer a lame pointless insult? Is your war wound acting up again?
Is God a meme? Or a virus?
12 Jan '07 21:06
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