From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: i-memes and m-memes
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:31:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: <fg0VPwAjZqz3Ew8I@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 12:32 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
>
>
> In message <000201bef540$4d4da9c0$fdb606d1@sbosmr.ma.cable.rcn.com>,
> Aaron Agassi <agassi@erols.com> writes
> >What you are talking about is not identity but resemblance.
>
> In the case of information, these are the same thing.
No. A hard drive can actually be copied on the same platform. but not cross
platform. In such case identity is impossible, only resemblance. Because
straight copying becomes impossible, only translation.
But in the case of *information content*, arguably there is only
resemblance, identity only being a possibly trivial special case.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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