RE: Richard Dawkins Faith In Memes Is As Blind As A Christian's to God
July 23, 2010 at 8:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2010 at 9:15 am by Scented Nectar.)
(July 23, 2010 at 7:56 am)Cecco Wrote: scented nector, i have never denied that memes are concepts. so calm down.That only makes me wonder what your crazy definition for the word 'concept' must be, since at the least you don't think memes are real, whatever 'real' means to you, that is....
(July 23, 2010 at 8:24 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Concepts can be measured in the brain scientifically, if not yet maybe they can in futureThey can be partially measured and/or statistics gathered now in ways like, seeing how popular and widespread they are, analysing how they affect human behaviour patterns, categorizing them into units and subunits (eg; god-belief unit with individual religion subunits) showing any components/clustering of ideas within a meme, tracking changes over time, looking at their relationships/interactions/compatablity with other current memes, and by analysing the different ways that meme selection happens (eg: one might have been forced by law on a society while another one becomes popular due its pleasurability), etc. Just not the type of measurements in the physical measuring cup sense that I think Cecco must be meaning.
I'm really shitty at giving kudos and rep. That's because I would be inconsistent in remembering to do them, and also I don't really want it to show if any favouritism is happening. Even worse would be inconsistencies causing false favouritisms to show. So, fuck it. Just assume that I've given you some good rep and a number of kudos, and everyone should be happy...
