Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)
Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 04:15:22 +0000
In message <199703182139.VAA00083@typhoon.dial.pipex.net>, Dave Pape
<davepape@dial.pipex.com> writes
>I've also heard talk about Hamming Space, which is like a polydimensional
>ideospace, where ideas are closer together the more elements they share.
>Hey, you know people tend to hang out with people they have a lot in common
>with? Well, what they're doing is mapping Hamming Space onto local
>geographical space. Kind of. Except they aren't really, I just fired off a
>metaphor before I checked it.
Let me try. People tend to hang out with people they have a lot
in common with because we are all lost in hamming space/ polydimensional
ideospace /semantic hypervolume/babel's library/n-dimensional thought
space. Except that we are all lost in a different part of it. We can at
least contact people who are lost in the same ballpark (have a lot in
common with us) and together see what's round the next n-dimensional
turning. And when we feel confident we can start changing the maze,
playing with it and making it more fun.
Tony Hindle
You know what I mean? Am I the only one who is lost here?