From: Dale Fletter <dfletter@sirius.com>
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Encoding and Decoding
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:45:48 -0700
Yes, I agree. If you are going to frame the discussion so as to define the
information as an entity within the brain then it is logically necessary to
have a decode since all structures within a brain must be interpreted by
that organism to become behavior of any type. The instructions or
propensity for the behavior are clearly different from the behavior and
ipso facto must be interpreted, or decoded if you will, to become behavior.
If the organism were to perish all i-memes hosted by that organism perish
as well and the behavior can no longer be expressed by the organism.
On Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:31 AM, Robin Faichney
[SMTP:robin@faichney.demon.co.uk] wrote:
> In message <19990901080717.92002.qmail@hotmail.com>, James McComb
> <jamesmccomb@hotmail.com> writes
> >
> >Is it a logical necessity that encoding and decoding take place in any
> >memetic replication?
>
> Great question! In my view, yes. If, as you suggest, we accept the i-
> form/m-form story, then we have to talk about the transformation between
> these forms. Given that this is information, en/decoding *means*
> transformation. QED (Also, mutation can be considered in the same
> terms.)
> --
> Robin Faichney
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