Memester

6-The rise of the automatic button maker
Case study of a memetic wave.

5 -Critique of memetics review
Omar An - The crucial element which distinguished Darwin's idea from other neat ideas was that he had very respectable disciplines to back it up. As of now memetics lacks such supporting disciplines. This is partially due to the lack of coherence in the social sciences and partially due to memetics' reluctance/inability to coordinate its project with existing fields.

4 - Defintion - principia cybernetica

A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication: a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme. This process of self-reproduction (the memetic life-cycle), leading to spreading over a growing group of individuals, defines the meme as a replicator, similar in that respect to the gene (Dawkins, 1976; Moritz, 1991).

3 meme - fashion

The fashion memes of whatever type are generated from some creative (original?) idea and struggle to survive with the fittest (denim jeans, Beatles songs?) managing to go on for long periods of time whilst the weakest (flares, Afro haircuts) fade from public consciousness.

2 -meme
The meme - what is it? 23/10/01 I visualise it thus: Input via senses - the meme presents itself as attractive (wonderful plumage) It's mixed with our individual thought responses and occupies a space within our minds as a centre of energy held (and fed) by a cluster of thought constructs. Output into identity - "I'm wearing my memes tonight - they're really cool" In turn to be replaced by the next competing attractive input or gradually seen as defective in some way (scaffolding of thought constructs begins to fall apart or disintegrate under the insight potential of new thoughts) unless the meme establishes itself firmly within the nexus of our central identity (does anyone go off Coltrane, Beethoven?). ------------- 3/3/03 A common description is that of an "ideavirus". I've lately seen this applied pejoratively to the link+comment fest that is the preferred operational mode for some blogs. It will be worth conducting analysis of this theme. J

1 - blog
An experimental usage of the pitas account - can it form part of a broad approach to blogging that sees sub-blogs and community blogs all linked in one seamless weave. My blog and creative output are located at http://www.jsrealtime.co.uk