From: "James McComb" <jamesmccomb@hotmail.com>
To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:25:11 +1000
Robin Faichney:
This example is too confusing. You seem to be talking about decoding
systems as memes, and about decoding memes, at the same time.
James McComb:
You're right. I had difficulty communicating my idea in that e-mail. Rest
assured that I do not really conflate decoding systems with memes.
I will try to put my ideas about en/decoding in the 'Encoding and Decoding'
thread. (For a start, I'll be dropping the terms 'encoding' and 'decoding'
in exchange for the more neutral 'transformation'.)
Robin Faichney:
Anyway, how could we ever know that any two communities were genuinely
isolated??
James McComb:
Which is to say that reconstructing phylogenies is as much a problem in
memetics as it is in biology!
---James McComb
Fidelity! Fecundity! Longevity!
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