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- From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: The Kingdom of Ideas
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.174452.2633@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:44:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan01.205632.7206@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
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- Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
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- In article <1993Jan01.205632.7206@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, dgross@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) writes:
- > WORK IN PROGRESS:
- > "The Kingdom of Ideas"
- > Copyright (c) 1992 Dave Gross
- >
- > If ideas have lives of their own, our knowledge of those lives is
- > more primative by far than the unscientific theories of biology held by our
- > most misled and ignorant ancestors.
- >
- > It was a long gap, after all, between the discovery of the principles
- > of reproduction by some prehistoric thinker, and the discovery of the
- > principles of heredity and evolution in the mid 19th century. And it was yet
- > another gap before the physical cogs of heredity -- genes -- were discovered.
- >
- > So it should come as little surprise that ideas -- which are, after
- > all, more flighty, ethereal things than plants and animals -- have remained
- > unstudied for so long.
-
- Memes and archetypes are just two of the terms used to describe this
- (or very similar) ideas. Biologists tend to use memes seeing them as
- analogous to genes and psychologists (jungian) tend to use archetypes.
- Psychiatrists tend to just call them neuroses :-)
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