Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294

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Date: Sat 08 Mar 2003 - 20:12:58 GMT

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    > ----- Original Message -----
    > 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.
    >
    Actually, I see mutual accommodation occurring.
    >
    > Kenneth
    >
    >
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