Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA07440 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:30:11 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C31@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Labels for memes Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:29:16 -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
>> Yes, but information stored where and how, and how does the
form of
> >> storage affect it?
>
<It is stored in brains, expressed ("stored" in a very fleeting way)
> in behaviour, and through behaviour, stored in artifacts including not
> only books and CD's, but also anything that betrays a trace of how it
> was made and/or what it is for. The form of storage obviously imposes
> limitations on the information that can be stored. You can't get 100
> minutes of music on an ordinary audio CD! But allowing for any and all
> types of encoding, such limitations can, in principle at least, be largely
> transcended. Brain and behavioural storage don't have such flexibility
> of encoding, and so have more strict limitations. In addition, brains and
> behaviour are both dynamic media, and within them there can be interaction
> between memes, and also interactions between memes and many other factors,
> such as genetically inherited tendencies, etc, etc.
>
> Does that answer your question? :-)>
>
I think so.
Vincent
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