> On Oct 15, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I said - I totally reject the reductionist 'theory' of Dawkin's 'memes'; > culture is far more complex than a set-of-beliefs.
It’s been so long, I honestly can’t even recall how much Dawkins attempts to explain with memes or even how he defines them. Certainly any attempt to explain the background in terms of propositions is doomed to fail. If nothing else Heidegger showed how background practices and equipment matter a great deal. And they can’t be exhausted by propositional representations of them. I just for the life of me don’t know if Dawkins makes that reductionist move.
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