Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA15382 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:31:37 GMT Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:25:55 -0800 Message-Id: <200202050225.g152Ptb12377@mail13.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: [66.156.195.136] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Abstractism Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:24:44 -0500
> Re: Abstractism "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 11:42 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
>
>> The Rorschach test conveys information to some of the people who see
>> it, even though no information was transmitted.
>
>> Transmitting an idea is a complicated process that goes far beyond
>> keying words onto a surface for someone to read.
>
>And there you have the cup and the lip.
>
>Of course, there's a real problem in you saying that the Rorschach test
>has no information to transmit. First off, it's man-made. That's a big
>'duh'. (Okay, it's made by psychologists- you have a point. What real
>information have any of them ever come up with, after all....) And
>anything non-chaotic and procedural has information, and the Rorschach
>tests are always symmetrical designs- far from informationlessness.
>
Left-right symmetricality and color (black on white) would seem to be the only thing that individual rorshach blots have in common.
>
>- Wade
>
>
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