Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 14:03:20 GMT

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    >"some concept of _put your own term here_
    >could serve eventually to unify mind, matter, and meaning in a single
    >theory?"

    Memetics fits.

    So does God.

    So does just about anything else sufficiently abstract.

    What about 'information' makes it uniquely capable of sitting inside that
    sentence?

    Is there a unified theory of mind, matter, and meaning? Why are you
    separating _those_ three?

    - Wade

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