From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Encoding and Decoding
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:26:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <2cpfQbAU6mz3Ewa5@faichney.demon.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:33 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Encoding and Decoding
>
>
> In message <5c06d673.24fefdae@aol.com>, MemeLab@aol.com writes
> >I sometimes think that this talk about encoding and decoding
> reveals a little
> >too much reliance on "The Brain is a Computer" metaphor. "Encoding" and
> >"decoding" implies that there IS a code, much in the way that
> computers have
> >codes. I don't know that that is the case. I think
> "interpretation" and
> >"translation" are better words to use, because those relate more
> to natural
> >language and thought which I think would be more of the medium of memes.
>
> I don't like "interpretation" or "translation" because of the
> intentional implication. Memetic transmission can be entirely automatic
> (to put it no stronger).
Being that even thoughts may come unbidden, there is no undue implication.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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