From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Sat 24 May 2003 - 00:41:41 GMT
At 09:10 AM 23/05/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Benzon wrote:
> >Gudmundur Ingi Markusson wrote:
>
> >>(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).
>
>Benzon:
> >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.
>
>Actually, I see it more as a hurdle to "jet set" memetics, such as
>Blackmore's, where memes seem to jump in tact from books to brains to the
>internet, and what have you.
>
>Gim
I think you might consider published genes as "lying there in books." A
current major concern of certain people is that the smallpox genome is
public as is the method of splicing in an immune suppressing gene IL-4.
Keith Henson
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