RE: What are memes made of?

From: Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 13:57:00 GMT

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On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Dynsys Outlook wrote:
>Bravo. Now, where does knowledge take the continuium?
>
> Alex Bennet
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
>Of William van den Heuvel
>
<snip>
>
>If you like to think in terms of "stances" then you could say
>information as matter is the "physical stance", and information as
>data is the "formal stance". But now I am tempted to suggest the
>introduction of an additional stance; information as meaning, which
>would be the "meaning stance".

The "meaning stance" is a great idea, but it's already been had: this is
effectively the same as Dennett's "intentional stance" -- see his book of that
name.

I think knowledge probably depends on the intentional stance, too.

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