Re: Japanese Univ. to set up world meme bank

From: Sabrina Marr (cocochanel@redshift.com)
Date: Tue 03 Dec 2002 - 05:46:44 GMT

  • Next message: Wade T.Smith: "Re: Japanese Univ. to set up world meme bank"

    How would it be possible to catalogue the world's supply of memes if they are constantly deleted and recreated, made up from "scratch", and reorganized in our individual brains? If nearly every concept and object can
    (and does) portray memes, the Japanese university's best hope is to make a list of basic memes. Memes are made exponentially, though kudos and bravados to any program that can predict and list them all. Sabrina Marr

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:59 PM Subject: Re: Japanese Univ. to set up world meme bank

    > >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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