From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Fri 23 May 2003 - 15:42:45 GMT
GIM:
<<(GIM) I agree. The assumption that information simply resides in books or
otherwise, waiting to be incorporated by hosts, which seems to be taken for
granted in much memetic discussion, is misguided. Here I think Peirce is
useful. In the light of his semiosis concept, information is not a dyadic
relation, a carrier carrying something (signifier incorporating a
signified), but a triadic relation, where information arises only when a
subject interprets a signifier (sign-vehicle).>>
BB:
<<All of which is to say that mentalist memetics gets tripped up on a point
that linguists and semioticians have understood for a century or so.>>
What exactly is "non-menatlist" memetics? Do you have a model of cultural
evolution that does not involve minds?
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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