From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Sun 02 Mar 2003 - 18:43:57 GMT
> If a meme is pure information, then it's transfer from one medium to
> another should adhere to the classical model of communications as
> described by Claude Shannon. A low signal-to-noise ratio could be
> responsible for the differences between the original incarnation of a meme
> and the resulting neural representation of it in your head.
I agree....but does one not also need to assume that there is some
adjustment of the meme a bit to fit into the new heads' space, with lots of
different memes in it? (The analogy I would use is implementing the same
piece of software into different environments usually requires adjustments
to the software in some ways unless both the environments are "Gatesian" ie
all-Wintel)
Alan
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