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In a message dated 9/17/00 11:52:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
robin@reborntechnology.co.uk writes:
<< > Hi Robin,
>
> I would be most appreciative if you would expand a bit on the word
> 'key.'
This is very simple: in any coding scenario, there are 3 entities:
(1) the encoded information, or message, (2) the carrier, and (3) the
key or code, which is required to extract the message from the carrier.
In encoding, the carrier results from the interaction between the message
and the key. In decoding, the message results from the interaction
between the carrier and the key. If we consider memes to be (differently)
encoded in both brains and behaviour, the key is anything that can
be considered to stimulate the transformation, in either direction,
i.e. to cause brain-stored information to become behaviour, or behaviour,
through observation, to become brain-stored.
--
Robin Faichney >>
Thanks Robin for a crystal clear explanation.
Perhaps the key to individual IQ is one's 'key.'
Len
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