Message-Id: <199802272258.OAA24292@eve.speakeasy.org>
From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #23
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:56:33 -0800
Zoom <zoom@shs-partner.de> writes:
>Tim Rhodes wrote-
> If a meme must be encoded, transmitted, and decoded, what do we call the
> encoded information between the time it is encoded and decoded. Is that
> pattern of symbols the `meme' itself? (I have my doubts.) And if not,
> what is it?>
>
> I would say that the meme itself is the same. It is just a difference
between > potential and kinetic energy. One is 'active', the other is
'passive' waiting to > materialize (which it may never do).
In physics we have terms like `potental' and `kinetic' to distinguish these
states. Do we need a similar terminology in memetics to clarify things?
Do we have it yet?
Curious-
-Tim Rhodes
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