Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:56:13 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Context as transformation rules
In-Reply-To: <19990905052113.13287.qmail@hotmail.com>
In message <19990905052113.13287.qmail@hotmail.com>, James McComb
<jamesmccomb@hotmail.com> writes
>
>Two memes are identical if they share they same type of physical
>instantiation.
I think you mean "m-forms", rather than "memes".
>The fact that two memes are identical DOES NOT MEAN that the
>same information will be extracted from them.
The fact that two m-forms are identical DOES NOT MEAN that they carry
the same meme.
>This is because the same meme
>can be interpreted in different ways (can be transformed by different
>transformation rules).
This is because the same m-form can be en/decoded in different ways.
>Symbolically:
>
>m1 --t1-> m2 and
>m1 --t2-> m3 where t1 !=(not equals) t2
m1 --t1-> i1 and
m1 --t2-> i2
No?
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