Re: Memes, genes and evolution;remember Feyerabend!

Don Mikulecky (mikuleck@HSC.VCU.EDU)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:48:48 -0500


Don Mikulecky replies...
I guess I didn't say it clearly.....
reductionism, even when it produces some "understanding" also looses something.

waiting 20 years will not replace what is lost...only ANOTHER approach can do
that.
respectfully,
Don Mikulecky

Gary Boyd wrote:

> With respect to Don Mikulecky's skepticism,
>
> perhaps it is time to recollect Paul Feyerabend's arguments
> that "=E4nythging goes in science" iff it ultimately leads to explanations,
> &/or predictions &/or heuristics
> which others in some scientific &/or technical community find helpful.
>
> It really is not worth criticising memetics until we chave seen what it can
> yield for us, probably a decade of
> work is needed.
>
> Gary Boyd.=20