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   Re: [xml-dev] W3C suckered by Microsoft?

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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
 > Memes are a concept to make uncited references
 > appear to be natural.

The meme conspiracy? Do they have secret meetings?

 > Memes are voodoo, more
 > of the pseudo-science, poor scholarship and
 > marketingese over research that made the 90's the
 > decade of the gullible.

Memes are a metaphor: the viral idea. They don't explain how ideas seem 
to take over their hosts and turn them into factories for spreading 
themselves, they just make a poetic comment about it. Complaining that 
memes aren't science is like complaining about "sea of troubles" because 
problems aren't really wet and salty.

Bob






 

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