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Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science

de Robert Aunger

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The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine reawakened the debate over the controverial field of memetics. This work pits leading intellectuals against each other to battle it out, and state their case.
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Dawkins: A Meme - a unit of cultural transmission.

A variety of academics from different disciplines look at the "meme" idea 24 years after Dawkins introduced it in his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene". The result is a miserable rag bag of a text.

Academics setting out on a journey of discovery tend do nothing until the concepts of "journey" and "discovery" are clearly defined - which may be never - and which may suit them just fine as they still collect their salaries. Contributing author David Hull wants them to get moving, emphasising that Darwin was happy to proceed with his investigation while the gene was still hypothetical.

There is some agreement among the authors that Blackmore's requirement (in her book "The Gene Machine") for memes to replicate by imitation is too restrictive, but the background unwillingness to investigate the issues is wholly depressing. Sociologists are just not interested in the dynamics of the transmission of ideas, anthropologists say that they've covered that ground already (and don't give much importance to it) and psychologists regard information transmission as irrelevant to social dynamics.

So biologists are left holding the bag (meme) and the editor (Robert Auger) can only make the following timid statement with regard to the revolutions of language, writing and the Internet; "But whether these have increased the transmissibility of memes .............. remains to be determined."

He does suggest that three forms of inheritance (genes, memes and artifacts) could form the basis of a new sophisticated theory of information transmission but it is clear that none of these authors is going to take up the challenge. As a complete layman it would seem to me that a young technologist reading a scientific paper and and checking with his supervisor, is taking on a meme - but that may just be my imagination. ( )
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