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"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> Information, per se, is not necessarily meaningful, and meaningless information,
> and meaningful information some meaning of which cannot be grasped by the potential
> recipient, are in my view, poor candidates for memetic propagation.
> You would prefer to use words like fertility, sterility, fecundity, penetration,
> insemination, pregnancy, potency or impotence? The proof of the pudding's in the
> eating; describe a memetic propagation using such terms. It might be (pant!) fun
> to read!
What might explain the popularity of the Elvis-is-alive cult? What is its
'information'?
Maybe its significance is the propagation of meaninglessness.
Fun.
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