From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Encoding and Decoding
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:42:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: <bW30yMA2SM13EwP5@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Robin Faichney
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:55 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Encoding and Decoding
>
>
> In message <000e01bef8a7$95fd87c0$fdb606d1@sbosmr.ma.cable.rcn.com>,
> Aaron Agassi <agassi@erols.com> writes
> >You only hope, some day, to see Neuro Science track a meme
> >through every neuron and synapse, all the way through it's
> transformation.
>
> My view is, that would be too much to hope for.
Then I leave it as hypothetical and rhetorical.
>The level of complexity
> is such that I don't expect this in the foreseeable future. Remember, I
> don't see actual memes in neural activity, but only the i-forms, which
> are encoded.
>
> >But on one fine day when this is finally accomplished, will they have
> >explained away intelligence, or will they end up understanding how
> >intelligence works in detail?
>
> Memetics does not seek to explain "the how" of intelligence (though it
> may be connected with "the why").
This is besides the point. I was building up to an argument that you have
seen fit to excise. Too bad. I was wondering what your answer would be.
> --
> Robin Faichney
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