Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:29:01 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Of memes and witchcraft
In-Reply-To: <001a01bea663$946b84c0$e4d56ccb@ddiamond>
In message <001a01bea663$946b84c0$e4d56ccb@ddiamond>, Chris Lofting
<ddiamond@ozemail.com.au> writes
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Date: Tuesday, 25 May 1999 4:45
>Subject: JCS: Of memes and witchcraft
>
>
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>
><snip>
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>>Memetics can only become quantitative if memes can be precisely defined and
>>this is difficult. Units of information can be defined adequately but, as
>>the failures of AI projects show, units of meaning present insuperable (so
>>far) problems,
[snip]
Just to clarify: Chris Lofting quotes a message originated by Chris Nunn
and sent to jcs-online which was then forwarded by me to memetics, as
with other messages in this thread. I should perhaps have let Chris
Nunn and other jcs-online contributors know I'd done this.
-- Robin Faichney=============================================================== 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