From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Sat 08 Mar 2003 - 20:17:49 GMT
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From: "Alan Patrick" <a.patrick@btinternet.com>
> > 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)
Why should the meme need adjustments to fit in one's head !?
I do think this process works the other way round, that is the already
existing memes will be influenced by the newbie.
What can be, is that pieces of the initial info- spam of with the ' meme '
is part is cut out ( by a slice and divide mechanism) so that it would fit
better the requirements needed to be picked up.
In genetics such an enzyme exists.
Kenneth
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