On Sat, 17 May 2003, John Kozubik wrote:
Allow me to suggest this article (or rather, a response to an article):
http://www.edge.org/discourse/evolutionofculture.html
to anyone wishing to read a contrarian position as relates to "memes" and their various interpretations.
It should be easy to create a test for memes. The cave dweller experiment to find natural circadian rythm could be done with a group of people. In the control group, don't introduce anything new, and in the experimental group, introduce a specific meme. If meme theory is correct, you'd be able to predict how the experimental group does compared to the control group. If it's true there are not possible predictions, that would put an end to meme theory once and for all. Any psycologists doing this kind of thing? Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike