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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: RE: What are memes made of?
Date sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 13:57:00 +0000
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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.
>
Knowledge, meaning, value all depend upon intentionality, and so
do arbitrariness, choice and freedom, the very things which allow
the roomy spaces and spectrums of possibility for idiosyncrasies
and individual variances in which memetic creation, mutation,
transmission and reception may manifest.
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
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