From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Encoding and Decoding
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:24:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7n4sOLAOz903EwwB@faichney.demon.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 11:25 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Encoding and Decoding
>
>
> In message <37D3D01E.FA4A26AB@pacbell.net>, Bill Spight
> <bspight@pacbell.net> writes
> >Dear Robin,
> >
> >Robin:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Bill:
> >
> >Ah, the polymorphous P-meme! <s>
> >
> >If you mean "looking for" metaphorically, I am with you. But
> methodologically
> >the only replication that we can verify are forms.
>
> No. I mean we literally should not be looking for replication of forms,
> because they're not the fundamental replicators, but I don't mean to
> imply we should literally be looking for replication of what I would
> call simply the meme.
>
> In fact, given the difficulty (or impossibility) of dealing with the
> meme itself, I think there's no harm in looking for similarity of m-
> forms, as long as we use it only as a convenient guide to likely meme
> replication, and don't say it's required.
We are talking about the replication of information content, or meaning, by
consciousness, inter-subjectively. This is an event, a phenomena. To look
for a meme may well prove to be as intangible as seeking out a tornado
entity, rather than simply understanding it in terms of meteorological
events.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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