tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367190233877799632.post7392408543153904733..comments2024-02-27T09:51:03.152-08:00Comments on On Memetics: The meaning of heredityTim Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06623536372084468307noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367190233877799632.post-86658914136032805242021-02-19T04:36:56.713-08:002021-02-19T04:36:56.713-08:00Hi. Thanks. Yes, I am aware of Richard Semon's...Hi. Thanks. Yes, I am aware of Richard Semon's book - it is often citedd concerning the origin of the term "meme". The term "mneme" isn't so catchy in English. unfortunately.Tim Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06623536372084468307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367190233877799632.post-87215693925663924672015-08-18T02:16:17.822-07:002015-08-18T02:16:17.822-07:00I'm extremely disappointed that there has been...I'm extremely disappointed that there has been little interest from the wider population on your blog. It's certainly one of the finer ones on memetics that I now know of.<br /><br />Came here by way of your critique on Constructal Theory, since I had never heard of it before a comment posted by Bejan himself in a now insanely popular blog here (forgive me, I do not know the shortcuts for hyperlinks in comments: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html).<br /><br />Not as "adult" as yourself, but eh, that's just the price of popularity I'm afraid. Still marvelously interesting and pretty funny. I guess I found my new fixation, as Tim blogs insanely slowly these days--which i'm sure you understand why if you see it.<br /><br />Getting back to the matter at hand, you would be very happy that indeed some scientists would not make this mistake put forth by biologists: Harrington at UC Davis for example, developmental psychologist. He had a great lecture wherein he basically describes exactly what you mean: that the cultural features and idiosyncratic nuances of any given thought could potentially spread like an epidemic to anyone on earth, greatly affecting portions of people's lives.<br /><br />Given the rather poor understanding of what makes memories "stick", Memetics is indeed a very valuable interdisciplinary field to flesh out the basis of thoughts as they co-habitate. Also, the scope of the feild may not be as parochial as human-based memes, either: it all depends on how generalized a definition of "meme" we use.<br /><br />P.S. You wouldn't happen to know German would you? I have a wonderful tome on the Mneme: "Die Mnemischen Empfindungen" (1909). Googling it again, indeed it is exactly the same book by Richard Semon, translated, as this one: https://archive.org/details/cu31924100387210.<br /><br />I'm sure that you've run across the translated one, which until just now I was unaware of. Yet another book to add to the stack to read, I'm afraidR1ckr011https://www.blogger.com/profile/07564441155783544486noreply@blogger.com