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Comment on Peter’s Midterm Thoughts by Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:42:04 +0000

That’s interesting to look at things from an Econ or Business perspective.

I agree on material retention being an issue, as one lecture does not necessarily flow into the other. There is such a thing as too many new ideas at once.

Comment on MURC by Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:39:42 +0000

I agree that I think I could’ve done a better job too. It felt kind of rushed, but I like how we pulled it off as a group together.

Comment on Linguistics Overview by Peter Wessendorf

Peter Wessendorf — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:45:41 +0000

Long story short- linguistics does have such a unit. Croft (2000) refers to it as a lingueme. The problem with linguemes is that, like most memes, they’re notoriously hard to define.

The examples that come to mind are things like idioms, specific meanings of words, syntactic constructions, and sound sequences. These tend to blur together a bit, though.

Comment on Two interesting articles on evolution and culture by santokh

santokh — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:46:02 +0000

The original review paper, entitled “How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together” by Laland et al. is published in Nature Reviews (February 2010, Volume 11). A PDF copy of this review article is available at: http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v11/n2/pdf/nrg2734.pdf

Comment on The 5min MURC Panel Intro v1.0 by Peter Wessendorf

Peter Wessendorf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:38:16 +0000

If we were to have a short break, the place between Scott’s presentation and mine would be the logical place.

Comment on Linguistics Overview by Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:37:41 +0000

I was just thinking, linguistic evolution doesn’t have a gene-like replicator does it? Or would phonemes and morphemes count as unit-replicators?

Personally I think language has been left out of the memetics debate, though there is indeed so much overlap I wonder why linguistic evolution doesn’t get brought up.

Comment on Not everything is an adaptation: applications of neutral evolutionary models outside biology by Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:34:49 +0000

Also, can I make up for my missing blog posts when my computer is back up and running? I don’t have access to my proposal right now.

Comment on MURC proposal by Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:32:45 +0000

I know you’re interested in Christianity, but Foltz, Richard C. 1999. “Religions of the Silk Road.” New York: St. Martin’s Press may be of interest to you. It covers the spread of Buddhism and Islam along the Silk Road and why relgions (he makes a metaphor to organisms) must adapt in order to succeed, which explains why China was pretty resistant to Christian influence since Buddhist concepts had already set in and were more related to their original folk ideas.

Comment on Not everything is an adaptation: applications of neutral evolutionary models outside biology by Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:25:22 +0000

I wasn’t aware of references for the proposal, but for the presentation and paper, definitely. I think they don’t need them because they’re publishing these in the MURC handbook, and references from everyone would be too much paper.