X-Message-Number: 28428
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:42:53 -0600
From: "Anthony ." <>
Subject: memes = isomorphism

> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:19:16 -0400
> From: Keith Henson <>
> Subject: genies and nenes [Anthony .]

> >How is the information independent of the media the information is coded in?
>
> When you can convert from one media to another.  Tape, paper, CD, hard
> disk, etc can all be used to store text and it is no big deal to convert
> from one to the other.

This is nothing but isomorphism. Is that all a meme is!?

The information is never independant, it is always encoded in media.

(If you are saying the info. is independant (like some "memeticians"
do), then you are espousing another form of philosophical idealism -
prey to the same old criticisms.)

> Genes too can be stored on various media and
> converted back to DNA strings.

When genetic information is stored as such, it is genetic information,
not a gene.

When information about other things is stored as such, it is
information, not a "meme".

Anthony

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