Reception and Criticism
His work received a mixed reception among academics and among other memeticists. Some typical criticisms include the following:
- Lynch's work is theoretical, as yet unproven by empirical or computer simulation research.
- Lynch cites few of the works within the historic literature of social science which foreshadow a theory of social contagion.
- Some memeticists dispute his definition of the meme (see memetics article).
Lynch addressed such criticism in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation,
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