From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun 02 Mar 2003 - 21:12:49 GMT
No, it is dependent upon a multiplicity of similar, but not
identical,
minds. The precise encodings of the memes do not have to be
identical; rather they must, when interacting with differing yet
similar
cognitive gestalts, result in those gestalts producing
recognizably
similar behaviors (including bodily action and its subsets
communication and artifact creation).
>
>- Wade
And where did these rules come from? If you reproduced one of the artifacts
left by an Indian tribe to the degree that it couldn't be distinguished from
the original, wouldn't you have received the information contained in the
making of it? All that was lost is the information concerning the use of
it.
Grant
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