From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Information basics 2
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:29:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: <5YfcxSAc3iH3Ewas@faichney.demon.co.uk>
"descriptions made and used by people" sure sounds like a subset of
"information actually embodied by a physical thing" to me.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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-----Original Message-----
From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
Of Robin Faichney
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:58 PM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Information basics 2
In message <000101be8c04$e3303de0$38233fce@rb4010>, Richard Brodie
<richard@brodietech.com> writes
>Robin wrote:
>
><<In absolute terms, all descriptions made and used by people are
>subjective, while only the information actually embodied by a physical
>thing is objective. All the information with which we deal is
>subjective, however closely it might approximate to information that is
>actually "out there", in the form of physical reality.>>
>
>So people aren't physical things?
Did I say that? Surely you didn't read "out there" to mean "external to
the human body"? Or is it "all the information with which we deal" that
concerns you?
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