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You could always create your own. Take any of the issues you have listed and
dichotomise them into A/~A. This will automatically lead to a categorisation
'template' to open up with meaning pre-coded at the general level.
Particularise these and then compare the resulting model with 'out there'.
It should give you a degree of positive feedback that will lead into further
refinements that can then be opened-up for more intense discussion re
differences and so expressions of the fundamentals. The feedback goes to
ensure that you have made the 'correct' A/~A categorisations.
For example (to stay in context of this list), the following link points to
sets of general meanings that emerge by simply making the distinction of
genes from memes with the determination of genes being the A and memes the
~A. We could set the universe of discourse as information transmission or
whatever.
The point here is that we use the same basic method in analysis/synthesis of
anything; the moment you make a dichotomy a set of pre-coded meanings
becomes available and you link these together to give you a particular
thread through this general fabric. Furthermore the full set gives you a
guide in determining meaning even in what to the universe is meaningless.
:-)
The link:
http://www.eisa.net.au/~lofting/dichotic.html
best,
Chris.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Elmo Recio
> Sent: Sunday, 9 July 2000 3:29
> To: Memetics Mailing List
> Cc: Daniel Volkovich; Adam ODonnell
> Subject: RFC: Philosophy of Technology
>
>
> Ok, this may be off topic, but i really cant think of another
> pool of people
> more qualified to give me comments on this subject which has been
> brewing in
> my head for a while.
>
> It has to do with philosophy of technology. The type of study
> very much like
> philosophy of religion, or philosophy of science. Where studies can cover
> issues like AI (Metaphysics), Ethical Use (Ethics) and the savants in the
> field (Epistemology.) I don't know if i have something here or
> not, but it's
> worth an investigation at the very least.
>
> Is there anyone here who would be interested in some off the list
> discussion
> about this?
>
> -Elmo
>
>
> Elmo Recio; Philadelphia, PA 19103; USA
> Email: n2wog@usa.net
> Homepage: http://polywog.navpoint.com
> Sociology and Philosophy student at Drexel Uni
>
> The Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Just one more example
> of greedy multinationals shovelling the entrails of the poor
> and disenfranchised into the unslakable maw of the corporate
> fat cats.
>
>
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