From: Robin Faichney (robin@mmmi.org)
Date: Fri 14 Apr 2006 - 15:02:41 GMT
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 11:12:49 PM, Jesse wrote:
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In addition, memetics, in my opinion, should not and will not be a total picture or explanation for human culture, but rather will become the tool by which we understand how information transmits and changes over time (strangely the electrical engineering courses I took in communications principles gave me some interesting insight on memes from this perspective). |
I gave up arguing about this years ago, but maybe I should take it up again. Memes are items of INFORMATION! Genes are extremely unusual in being items of info that are stored only on one medium: DNA. Otherwise, info can be and is stored and encoded in diverse formats. It might be on DVD or video tape or in an encrypted zip file on your hard drive, but it's the SAME film. Likewise, memes are encoded in behavioural patterns, neural patterns, books and computers, etc, etc. It's not either/or but both/and. Is there anyone at all out there, besides Tim Rhodes and (maybe) Jesse who can see the sense of this?
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Best regards,
Robin mailto:robin@mmmi.org
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