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Cutting (off) to the chase, here...
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Soc Microlab 2 wrote:
<big snip>
>As I say chapters 12-14 of Darwin's Dangerous Idea are probably the best explanation of Dennett's view on
>this, but if you didn't have much time you could get an idea from the sub-chapter "could there be a science
>of memetics?" pp. 352-360. This quote should count as evidence that Dennett thinks memetics is about
>meaning: (from DDI p. 353-4)
>
>"what is preserved and transmitted in cultural evolution is *information* - in a media-neutral,
>language-neutral sense. Thus the meme is primarily a *semantic* classification, not a *syntactic*
>classification that might be directly observable in "brain language" or natural language."
What he's saying here is that the meme is encoded, not straight physical
information. The encoding can, and does, vary, but the encoded message remains
the same. No?
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