Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA06438 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:49:35 GMT Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:43:51 -0800 Message-Id: <200202010543.g115hpb29578@mail8.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.160.132] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: neccesity of mental memes Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Steve Drew" <srdrew_1@hotmail.com> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: neccesity of mental memesDate: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:28:31 +0000
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:40:28 -0800
>From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: neccesity of mental memes
>
>> >
>>Because we are using a natural, uniform and ubiquitous component of the
>>universe as our stick, not something arbitrary or rooted in
>>anthropomorphism. It does not matter what you call the unit of
>measurement
>>(since language is itself arbitrary and by mutual convention), so long
>as
>>your peers understand it, and it fulfills the above requirements. We
>are
>>not assigning a value to the protom-radius, we are naming it; it will
>>remain the same length whatever we call it, and that takes the
>>arbitrariness out of the referent, even though linguistic signs
>themselves
>>are, for the most part (excluding, say, onomatopoeic words),
>irretrieveably
>>arbirary.
>> >
>> >Steve
>> >
>
>Now we're talking the same language.
>
>Grant
>
>I think you left my name attached to one of Joe Dee’s posting Grant.
>
>Just because something we have decided is a fundamentak measurement of the
>universe that is suitable as a unit of measurement of the universe doesnot
>make it any different to a metallic rod. The metal rod will appear to an
>observer under the same conditions the same each time. How is that different
>from the the radius of a proton? And this radius is not absolutely defined
>that i am aware, due to the problem of the wave / particle duality (and if
>you include one of my old lecturers, he described it as an energy field), so
>what measurement are we on about. The truth of the matter as i see it, is
>that external reality exists [my assumption - it makes life easier for me :
>- ) ] but that our interpretation of it is not always up to scratch. I don’t
>see that assigning a value to something as any different to nameing it.
>(Some one also mentioned a 9 dimensional universe - i got the impression
>they were working on 13, and that they did unfold but are not visible above
>the sub atomic?)
>
>I would appreciate some clarification,
>
Because in one case our measurement referent is artificial and arbitrarily chosen and by mutual convention (kinda like non-onomatopoeic words), and in the other case the measurement referent is natural and actual; the smallest uniform length we can discover in the universe (which as the added benefit that evey length would have to be in integral multiples of the measurement referent - no fractions or remainders could exist).
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>
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