From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 11 Jul 2003 - 03:22:28 GMT
>
> >exactly the same message can convey different meanings to different
> >people
>
> Just wanted to make a quick comment on this statement. Even if a
> message is transferred
> with 100% accuracy, it still does not carry the same meaning to
> everyone. That is to say, that even if the physical pattern
> representing a meme is transferred perfectly from one mind to the
> next, this does not neccessarily entail agreement on the signifigance
> of the idea. It is important to distinguish between errors in
> communication, and differences in interpretation. It is common to see
> these two things confused. It all comes down to the memetic
> interpretation of the two fundamental types of disagreements:
> disagreement in attitude and disagreement in belief. With disagreement
> in belief being an instance in which you do not share a meme(plex)
> with someone, and disagreement in attitude being an instance when you
> share a meme(plex), but do not share the interpretation of it. I think
> for the most part when an effective communicator attempts to transfer
> a meme the recipient(s) are given the meme, with only negligible
> errors. The interesting part is observing how the interpretation of
> the meme changes depending upon the prior conditioning of each
> learner. Perhaps my interpretation is flawed, or maybe I'm putting to
> much stress on this idea, but to me, it's important to include the
> recognition of this in any commentary on memetics. If you think I'm
> wrong feel free to educate me, I'm merely a humble high school
> graduate, yet to attend my first year of college. -matt
>
Sounds like the difference between a hermeneutics of memetics, and a
memetic pragmatics (along with syntactics and semantics, one of the
three divisions of semiotics)
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri 11 Jul 2003 - 03:28:32 GMT