G'day Ian, > Just what is a *unit* of information, anyway? A sentence, a hypothesis, > a theory-paradigm? The notion that we can apply marginalism to any of > these questions just seems silly.
This is exactly how scientists attack Dawkins' 'meme'. Is a pair of flared trousers one meme or a hundred? Every time natural science tries to cram its numbers into the field of human communication, they fall out, I reckon. I'd love to know how much we're all paying for the constant struggle to make excludable the practically unexcludable, too ... Sigh, Rob.
