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Øyvind Vada: Making Memetics a science
1. Making Memetics a Science Øyvind Vada www.memetor.eu/vada [email_address] http://ecco.vub.ac.be/ ECCO Seminar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) April 2008
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The concept of yin and yang (or earth and heaven) describes two opposing and, at the same time, complementary (completing) aspects of any one phenomenon (object or process) or comparison of any two phenomena. They are universal standards of quality at the basis of the systems of correspondence seen in most branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy
In Greek mythology, Mneme was one of the three original (Boeotian) Muses, though there were later nine. Her sisters were Aoide and Melete. She was the muse of memory. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher plagiarising Eugène Nielen Marais (9 January, 1871 – 29 March, 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer. “ by virtue” On the grounds or basis of; by reason of
....mentalist memes are purely hypothetical entities. Now, if these hypothetical entities had given rise to a good research program with substantial empirical results, that would be a different matter. But that research program has not come into being. Memetics doesn't have a Gregor Mendel. (Benzon, 2003)
the nesessety of 'problem shifts' within as program to vitalize a RP it is nessesary to take problemshifts within the program. That does not nessearøly mean Focus of study and metho
All answers lack a clear answer on making a ontological discrete and mutual exclusive defintion of memes
Predefine memes as “signs” and by that make them units of analysis according to the Pierec triad in Pragmatism Be open to, and be enriched from, other research programmes The memetic reseracher should always predefine memes in her/his empirical field before she/he starts to look. The essence of the Memetics research programme should be diffusion and adoption in individual and collective systems and how memes influence action and behavior. To empirically show THAT memes spread is enough Leave HOW and other ambitions in the memetic field to better and complementary research programmes ( e.g. Bateson, Mead ) Methodological reductionism AND epistemological holism, not methodological holism and epistemological reductionism. Methodological reductionism and epistemological holism can be unified. Both physical and metaphysical units of analysis need to be predefined in order to be analyzed. Implicit in defining the units of analysis lies a reductionism. To fine the units systemic interaction with its context is research. In Memetics this research is about diffusion and adaptation of units (memes). The axiomatic presupposition that units influence the complex wholes they are a part of, is an epistemological holistic perspective.
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