[extropy-chat] Fwd: Calvin and Memes (was Memes and Identity)

[Robert Bradbury]

On 11/12/06, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> At 03:43 PM 11/12/2006 -0500, Robert wrote:
>
> >Ok, I'll use RCNPFUEM from now on when I'm talking about the topic
> >of internal neural patterns that behave like memes.
>
> Neuremes? Or hexemes (since Calvin's neural gadgets are hexagons)? Or
> ideomemes (they're idea-memes)? Or idiomemes (they're proliferating
> one-offs)? (Fred Jameson, Marxist literary theorist of note, coined
> "ideologemes" as persistent structural components of social thought
> patterns.)


Damien, your are a fountian of stuff I do not know!

If you cross, you and I and spike after the upload age arrives boy do we
have one interesting metabrain.

Separate thread: "Best extropian mind meld...?
Or have we done this before?

As a separate note (relating to the AI discussions), the NY Times today has
an article on "Web 3.0" which is the generation of "intelligence" from the
web [1].

Robert

1. "Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense" by John Markoff (12 Nov
2006)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/business/12web.html
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