Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA23553 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:47:04 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745BE0@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: DNA Culture .... Trivia? Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:45:34 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
<Sure it's information, but more than that, it is meaningful
> information; its meaning (what it is) corresponds with its utility
> (what it does). Information bereft of meaning could not establish
> and exploit a niche in the meaningful gestalt which is its cognitive
> environment. it must be assimilated to and assimilate, and
> accommodate itself to and accommodate, that environment, that is
> to say, that it must at one and the same time adapt itself to that
> environment and adapt that environment to itself. Since the
> informational environment is a meaningful one, so must our entity
> be in order to effect this assimilative/accommodative adaptation.>
>
>
Isn't the phrase 'meaningful information' tautological?
Or, in other words, what kind of information could be bereft of
meaning?
Vincent
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