From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Fri 08 Nov 2002 - 01:05:07 GMT
You need to talk about mental information to distinguish memes from other
replicators. Memes are those replicators that replicate through the effect
they have on our minds, and thereby our behavior.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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Subject: Re: Mini case study of memetic mutation
Dear Richard,
> So you're saying that all memes are mental information, but not all mental
> information is an idea?
Information is another dicey concept. Even in science, it means
different things in communaction theory, in physics, and in biology, and
there are more than 3 definitions, too. ;-) In a sense, anything that
can be described can be said to have mental information. I think we need
to be more precise.
I have held the idea that memes are neither internal nor external,
neither mental nor behavioral, but protean, taking on different forms. I
am beginning to think that it is better to conceive of memes as
structures. According to one sense of information, a structure is
information. Then if memes are structures, they are information. I see
no need to talk about mental information. :-)
Best,
Bill
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