From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu 24 Oct 2002 - 18:25:23 GMT
Dear Darek,
> Then, I am also interested in getting in touch with somebody who has tried
> to analyze memes as forms of energy. Information can be (according to 2nd
> law of thermodynamics) expressed as energy. Should memes be considered ways
> of transferring information and/or conveying messages, I claim they should
> be presentable as forms of energy. Energy which is capable of influencing
> largely human mind and counsciousness and, in a way, as many forms of
> energy, it should be capable of shaping/reorganising matter.
>
> I strongly believe that analysing memes as portions of energy and finding a
> way of combining memetics with Shannon's information theory as well as 2nd
> law of thermodynamics (growing entropy) would take memetics into a more
> scientific than philosophical direction.
>
You might want to look at "Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New
Perspectives or Physical and Biological Evolution," edited by Weber,
Depew, and Smith, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1988. :-)
Good luck!
Bill
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