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Comment author: timtyler 04 December 2011 09:05:25PM *  0 points [-]

[one objection to E. P. is:] Memetic pressures shaping cultures.

Probably the single biggest problem for E. P. is that its practitioners typically don't "get" menetics. Pinker is a good example of this.

The issue has been explained in detail in these papers:

The good news is the E. P. and memetics can be bolted together - although the result is then a lot like memetics and not very much like E. P.

The bad news is that without memetics, E. P. is pretty terminally screwed.