Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:05:37 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
In-Reply-To: <19990831052351.14286.qmail@hotmail.com>
In message <19990831052351.14286.qmail@hotmail.com>, James McComb
<jamesmccomb@hotmail.com> writes
>James McComb:
>
>i1 = i2 iff inv(m->i2) = (i1->m)
>
>Robin Faichney:
>
>I think reciprocity of transformation *means* that i1 = i2. In other words,
>that formula is tautological.
>
>James McComb:
>
>It is indeed tautological. I was toying with the idea of a transmission
>logic, and logics consist of tautological statements. I don't know whether
>such a logic would be of use to memeticists... what do you think?
Sorry, I'm not clear what you mean. Can you suggest what such a logic
might consist of or concern itself with, beyond such basics as the
foregoing? Because I've been assuming that information theory would
cover all this, but I'm very far from being an expert on it. (I'm into
the philosophy of information, which is a different area, though of
course it's adjacent.)
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