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One major quibble:
Joe Dees wrote:
<<nor can it be
denied that the purpose of a message (why we send them) is to
convey meaning>>
It certainly can be denied. From the message's point of view, its purpose is
to replicate itself. That is the basis of the memetics model. You can't be
implying that all our behavior is done out of conscious choice, can you?
<<Of course, if you
deconstruct a system into its component parts, you destroy the
complex and dynamic recursive interrelations from which self may
emerge; it's kinda like demolishing a building and studying it brick
by brick to ascertain that there were never walls or ceiling.>>
Well said.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com www.memecentral.com/rbrodie.htm
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