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- From: canevit@utkvx3.utk.edu (Canevit, Craig Eugene)
- Subject: Re: The Kingdom of Ideas
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:13:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.174452.2633@dct.ac.uk>, ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig) writes...
- >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.
- >>
- [snip, snip]
- >
- >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 :-)
- >--
- >Alan Greig Janet: Alan@UK.AC.DUNDEE-TECH
- >Dundee Institute of Technology Internet: Alan@DCT.AC.UK
- >Tel: (0382) 308810 Int: +44 382 308810
- > -- There is only one true conspiracy --
- Wow! I am glad we're having this discussion. I was wondering if you
- people could assemble a bibliography of memetics. I only know of a
- few books which deal with the concept. I was also thinking about the
- difference between archetypes and memes. Memes, to my understanding,
- are more like software whereas archetypes speak to something 'built-in'
- although the 'speaking to' of archetypes--the literary use of and the
- discussion of are most definitely examples of memes. Is this sound, David?
- Anybody else?
- Bibliography of Memetics---
- Dawkins, Richard. _The Selfish Gene_. New York: Oxford U P,
- 1976.
- The work from which memes get their name.
- VIRUS 23, issue $ [sic] available for $7 from
- Virus 23
- box 46
- Red Deer, Alberta
- Canada T4N 5E7
- includes a lexicon, and (I think) a
- brief bib. the first place I ever
- heard of memetics...
- Hofstadter, Douglas. _Metamagical Themas_ Sorry to all you
- fans if I misspelled anything here. I don't have this,
- but it mentions or discusses memes at least in passing.
- Anybody have better info here?
- anyway, if anybody's interested, I hope this helps. I hope others out
- there will contribute to the list as well...
- --Craig E. Canevit
-
-