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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Reborn Technology
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: new line: what's the point?
Date sent: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:11:26 +0000
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> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Joe E. Dees wrote:
> >Date sent: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:48:51 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
> >From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu>
> >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >Subject: Re: new line: what's the point?
> >Send reply to: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >
> >> The point of memetics as I see it is a unifying bridge for all these
> >> disciplines. As such, it will function much like genetics as a
> >> referential basis for other disciplines.
> >>
> >> Memetics provides the best explanations to date for the selective
> >> transmission of cultural information, whether that information takes the form
> >> of meanings, of kinship relationships, of technologies, or of natural laws.
> >>
> >There IS NO information in the absence of meaning
>
> You said that before, and I replied "Try telling that to a physicist", to which
> I did not see any response. I'm still interested.
>
And a physicist, Bob Logan, has responded to you. Try reading
Shannon and Weaver also, and Fred Dretske and Norbert Weiner
and John Von Neumann (I know it's useless asking you to read
ANYthing, but I thought I'd try - again! - anyway).
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
>
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