Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA11265 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:50:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: MemeticsFlowers.Org and mailing list Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:44:55 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F277RBP6BagdpdprrsA0000cc86@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Mar 2002 17:44:56.0156 (UTC) FILETIME=[45FEA9C0:01C1D680] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: MemeticsFlowers.Org and mailing list
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:30:14 -0500
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>>From: "Douglas P. Wilson" <dp-wilson@shaw.ca>
>>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>>Subject: MemeticsFlowers.Org and mailing list
>>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 03:21:51 -0800
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>>The new domain name MemeticFlowers.Org has been registered and a temporary
>>home page for it has been created at
>>www.SocialTechnology.Org/MemeticFlowers.html with a mailing list at :
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MemeticFlowers.
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>>As ordinary flowers are the reproductive or sex organs of angiosperm
>>plants,
>>memetic flowers are reproductive organs for memetic organisms. This site
>>and mailing list are intended to support the creation of software for
>>rapidly creating web pages and a mailing list to propagate ideas and other
>>memes, meme-complexes, or memetic organisms.
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>>If you can produce a two word description or name for an idea you want to
>>propagate, like Social Technology, memetic propagation software (a kind of
>>Memetic Flower) should be able to create a web page, perhaps with a name
>>consisting of the concatenated words, like www.SocialTechnology.Org
>>containing a lot of standard default pieces of mechanism like guest books,
>>together with a mailing list for participants, all in support of that
>>idea,
>>and it could do so in seconds.
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>>The site and mailing list will also support discussion of the fundamental
>>idea of Memetic Flowers, which is much broader than this message suggests.
>>Here is the description paragraph for the MemeticFlowers mailing list (see
>>subscription form at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MemeticFlowers),
>>slightly
>>reformatted.
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>>MemeticFlowers.Org, is an organisation and website for the creation and
>>application of open-source software and HTML templates for use in setting
>>up
>>websites which may be attractive reproductive organs for memetic
>>organisms.
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>>This website and the Memetic Flowers mailing list will also be used for
>>theoretical and pragmatic discussions of memetic flowers, so long as
>>excessive discussion does not interfere with the actual software
>>development
>>work to be done. If that happens the discussion will be moved elsewhere.
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>>Flowers, of course, are the reproductive organs of angiosperm plants, and
>>this word can be used by analogy to mean the reproductive organs of
>>meme-complexes or memetic organisms.
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>>Memes, of course, are the information or software analogues of genes, as
>>first described by Richard Dawkins in his excellent book The Selfish Gene.
>>This is the same analogy that exists between computer viruses and ordinary
>>genetic viruses such as the AIDS or common cold viruses.
>>
>>We could surely find a less poetic but probably more accurate name for
>>memetic flowers, but to do so would be to ignore the reproductive
>>potential
>>of catchy names.
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>>A sister site with a related idea which links to MemeticFlowers.Org is
>>www.GradStudentProjects.Org.
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>You're a little premature. April 1st (A.F.D.) is next Monday.
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Giving this "memetic flower" thing a little longer to settle in, I can't
shke this image of people returning to a hive to perform round or waggle
dances after they've found some memetic flowers :-)
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