Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)
jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com
Fri, 21 Mar 97 09:22:47 GMT
From: Robin Faichney <r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk>
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> jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com wrote:
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> >Martz suggests that the
> >smallest meme is the smallest thing that means anything to us, but then
> >we have the problem of what is meaning?
>
> Data has meaning (is information, is a meme) if it affects behaviour.
But is that the same level of meaning for everyone? Can something affect
the behaviour of one person, whilst leaving another unchanged?
Drakir