Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:00:27 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Encoding and Decoding
In-Reply-To: <MNFBUAA4G303Ew1j@faichney.demon.co.uk>
In message <MNFBUAA4G303Ew1j@faichney.demon.co.uk>, Robin Faichney
<robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> writes
>In message <37D29E30.F878457C@pacbell.net>, Bill Spight
><bspight@pacbell.net> writes
>>Dear Tim,
>>
>><<
>>I agree with everything you've said, but will sit on the fence for a time
>>regarding whether the examples you give are cases of non-G-form transmission or
>>simply of other, alternate (and highly advanced) G-forms.
>>>>
>>
>>The only example I think is clearly non-G-form transmission is the reverse
>>psychology one. The intermediate form does not replicate.
>
>But the reverse psychology meme does, no?
A more important point, that only just occurred to me, is that we
shouldn't really be looking for replication of *forms* because the
replicators are the memes, that the forms carry in code.
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