[ SECRET POST #3065 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3065 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Witcher 3]


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03.
[Shakin Stevens]


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[The Godfather II]


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[A Redtail's Dream]


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[David Lynch & David Cronenberg]


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[Laurell K. Hamilton]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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09.
(Richard Dawkins)


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think he was okay on memes 30 years ago, when he started writing about them. Of course what he wrote is horribly out of date and just plain wrong in places now.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

No, memtics was a dumb idea when first proposed because it combined a primitive semiotics with an extrapolation from quantitative genetics that was just plain dumb because none of the limitations of the Central Dogma apply to semiotics. It's like trying to apply special relativity to economics on the grounds that capital is analogous to mass.

Of course on the biology side, it didn't help that that we had two revolutions of molecular biology and computational cladistics which puts biology on par with astronomy in the quantitative realm. Just this year, we found a common-ancestor cousin between Archeobacteria and Eukaryota through computational analysis of DNA samples. The social science people got their hands on Big Data and social network analysis, which could be quantified, and meanwhile, the meme people never could get their heads out of metaphor-land far enough to develop even a working definition of what a meme would be.

The final stake in that vampire should be a recent study coming out of comparative linguistics which found minimal overlap between linguistic and genetic diversity among humans. Simply put, Dawkins's adaptaionism and descent with modification is a shitty model for explaining language. Adaptationism not king of the hill in biology either, but adpatationist "just so stories" are easier to explain than molecular biology or cladistics.