Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA15986 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:15:24 GMT Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:41:38 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Three Scientists and Their Gods Message-ID: <20020122084138.B859@ii01.org> References: <200201220349.g0M3nxE27665@mail9.bigmailbox.com> <p04320400b872b1574976@[192.168.2.3]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <p04320400b872b1574976@[192.168.2.3]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:08:08AM -0500, Francesca S. Alcorn wrote:
>
> I have been thinking about Aaron's idea that we should dispose of the
> word meme, and call them replicators. Then we could look at the
> process of replication, and how ubiquitous it is. So I dug out my
> copy of Three Scientists and Their Gods, which IIRC, Ed Fredkin is
> talking about information theory and the whole universe is a
> computer. It strikes me that in his own way he is looking at a sort
> of Grand Unifying Theory of replication of information. I am going
> to go back and read it again, and wondered if anyone else has read it
> too, what your thoughts were.
Haven't yet read that, but for one view on the relationship between
physical and information processes see http://www.ii01.org/physics.html
A more appropriate forum for this topic would be the new Philosophy of
Information mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philofinfo/
-- Robin Faichney "One person's mess is another's complexity" inside information -- http://www.ii01.org/=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
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