From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue 03 Dec 2002 - 04:59:46 GMT
>From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Japanese Univ. to set up world meme bank
>Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 07:25:29 -0800
>
>They use the term "ideas" rather than memes but the concept looks like a
>meme bank to me.
>
>Check out: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56374,00.html
>
>Frankly, I think the idea is too big for a university and the number of
>ideas (memes) in the world is growing much too fast for any group to keep
>up.
>
>
Yeah. I'm not sure that even if the number of ideas is finite that
cataloguing them all would be a realistic undertaking. Not only would there
be ideas (actual and potential) themselves but the potential combinations.
It's probably a good thing if there's no commitment to the term "meme" over
"idea", "concept" or other such abstraction.
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