Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 14:57:53 GMT

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Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
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    On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
    > >"some concept of _put your own term here_
    > >could serve eventually to unify mind, matter, and meaning in a single
    > >theory?"
    >
    > Memetics fits.

    No, it does not.

    > So does God.

    Not even for all believers, never mind the rest of us.

    > So does just about anything else sufficiently abstract.

    Only if you don't care whether it really means anything.

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

    If I could explain that within the confines of an email list I'd already
    have done so. I'm currently working on a book, and wondering whether
    I'm going to have to drop some stuff to fit within even that format.

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

    Wade, if you're not interested in this stuff, isn't it obvious what you
    should do about it? 

    -- 
Robin Faichney
robin@reborntechnology.co.uk

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