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MemeHacking memetics conference (symposium)

2009-12-27T16:03:21Z

This group's collection of interests piques mine; it's a shame it seems to be stagnant.

Regardless, I thought it would be a good idea to inform whoever's paying attention here that NotaCon, the annual hacker convention in Cleveland, will be hosting a track of memetics speakers and panelists for at least one of the three days of the conference.

http://memehacking.com

The conference will gather thinkers, writers, scientists, researchers, social engineers, and digital anthropologists who understand the evolutionary nature of the memesphere and have something to say about it.

Any of you who've ever wanted a platform to discuss memetics in a serious (or playful) manner with the likes of Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins, Mark Pesce, and the ghosts of Marshall MacLuhan and Terence McKenna will want to check out the blog and consider attending.

Cheers,
Naomi

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Taoist Cauldrons as 8 Circuit Brain Analogs

2007-11-12T14:12:02Z

The 8 Circuit Brain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Circuit_Model_of_Consciousness

The Tryptophan--> Pinoline--> 5-MeO-DMT Cycle: Upper Cauldrons/Third Eye as Cicuits 7 & 8 (?): A Practical How To Guide
http://tribes.tribe.net/8-circuitbrain/thread/2acf5702-788d-491f-bc29-3c59d29715b8

http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/DarkRoom.pdf

Maximum Pineal Activation (Gravitational Fields)

http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/maximal.html

Glandular Steaming and Polar Reversal

http://www.universal-tao.com/article/kan&li.html

The Opening of the Crystal Palace (all with Illustrations)

http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/DarkRoomIntro.pdf

The House of the Rising Yang and the Muddy Pill

http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/DarkRoomTaoist.pdf

http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/index.html

"Heart Brain" as Circuit 6 (?) == Middle Cauldron
http://tribes.tribe.net/8-circuitbrain/thread/f87caf05-f559-4fbd-aa79-0113fdfb6840

http://www.heartmath.org/research/our-heart-brain.html

BioFields and Bliss

http://books.google.com/books?id=cKgPYsw67GwC&pg=PA105&dq=mantak+chia&as_brr=3&sig=ctjcS_Ow01csJm2BQGSc6KZ4NOI#PPP1,M1

Belly Brain as Circuit 5 (?) Taoist Lower Cauldron (Institute of Noetic Sciences)
http://tribes.tribe.net/8-circuitbrain/thread/4c46de89-4e5e-4ca0-a535-0fb5b8b68928

http://www.reflexologyinstitute.com/clinic_research1.php

http://www.kheper.net/topics/intelligence/MacLean.htm

http://www.wie.org/j25/gowygut.asp

"The Second Brain" (and the Enteric Nervous System)

http://books.google.com/books?id=AFTgHAAACAAJ&dq=the+second+brain

"Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind"

by Nobel Prize recipient Roger Sperry.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NLM9_58fg0QC&pg=PA54&dq=belly+brain&sig=BO6PzL6ab-gSwFsOhcX_8jxn534#PPR6,M1

Bardo Thodol as Inter-Planetary Magnetic Fields
http://tribes.tribe.net/8-circuitbrain/thread/0cd29030-31cd-4d9a-aab6-496b7f4f7986

this excerpt is from mountain tao systems in china-thailand more than kalichakric tibetan-indian, but same general root ( i think)

from: "Cosmic Healing II" , at universaltao.com from Mantak Chia:

the solar system is an energy structure with nine major awareness belts, planets are materialized form of belts

each belt has unique frequencies and qualities.. the soul remains strongly connected to the sun.. two clearly distinguished forms of soul are discussed:

1) sun related cloud soul of hun
2) moon related white soul po

po half comes into being at birth, preceding emergence of hun

soul starts incarnation process by moving through world of stars attracted by solar system where sun acts as a giant satellite station between the world of stars and planets

karmic information carried by soul determines how long it will remain in different planets' frequencies.. these frequencies affecting our learning possibilities and distinctive character qualities

during this incarnation the soul moves from un-manifested world through the star world, external planets, internal planets, and moon earth sphere.. an electro-plasmic force of humanity around the earth functions as an awareness belt connecting the soul with life on earth

later info covers five star palaces and five cranial bones and the opening of the crystal room to star frequencies

***************************************************************************************************************************************************

so it's one thing to say, another to have subjective experience, and another to externalize as objective proof and technology...

but I think the point here (for anyone who cares to read), is this:

if birds can sense the planet's magnetic field and poles as well as each other in flight to coordinate and migrate vast distances via the metal in their pineal glands/root eye/third eyes also visible on any iguanas forehead

and the bardo thodol is thought to be systematic solar planetary magnetic fields..

then you are left with the idea of a human telepathic mental field where souls are essentially higher frequency light structures... whose dimension is attune-able to by humans in the same sense as the earths field is to aviaries..

or in other words souls are postulated as, at a minimum, interplanetary magnetic denizens whose field is attuneable

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The web of DREAMS deserves your involvement

2006-08-08T09:55:56Z

Sacred geometry, universal energy, IBVA experiments linked with real time video, the opportunity to study yourself and others in a lucid REM state with state of the art equipment, recorded experiences, thousands of lights, music and more create “The Web Of Dreams”! An Interactive art piece symbolizing the connection of all things and how what you choose affects everything. It is designed to generate life-changing breakthroughs!

Allow yourself while in the Web to work through your fear and be inspired to make new empowering choices that create more hope for your future! Those who choose to be wrapped and suspended in the Web may discover that resistance creates the persistence of fear but acceptance allows for the disappearance of fear. Shed your fixed beliefs and ways of being while inside the Web and step into a new world of increased hope and possibility!

The web will offer up personal truths, it will offer up hope and dreams, it will offer a true reflection of how what you choose (hope or fear) affects the outcome of your future in a clear representation in the present moment.

“The Web of Dreams” will be placed 1300 ft from the man at 1:30. We will be doing IBVA EXPEREMENTS ALL WEEK. This will give us a chance to look at what is going on in the brain as someone is experiencing what ever they might be experiencing, Think of the possabilities. If this intrest you at all I encourage you to look at our web site and find out more about what we are creating on the playa this year. please if you are interested RESPOND TO THIS POST. LET ME KNOW YOU ARE INTERESTED.

We got a late start on this idea but we know, with some help from the community, we can still pull it off (no fear only hope). We have most everything we need but if the opportunity to assist others in breaking through their fear and gaining more hope and possibility inspires you we invite you to become a part of the “Web Team” and help in anyway you can. We are looking for people to fill volunteer shifts, donate money (we still need over $1,000) or any supplies we still need please contact me on Tribe or directly:

CLAYTON AND TERRY ALLRED

801-523-7094

For more info on the “Web Of Dreams” or to donate few dollars today(every little bit will help)by Pay Pal check out the web site at: webofdreams.home.comcast.net/

I truly look forward to the most amazing experience on the Playa with you and may all of your fears serve you in the end to achieve all your hopes!

Love,

Clayton
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All your memes are belong to us

2006-05-29T14:20:16Z

List of Snowclones

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The following is a list of collected snowclones. In the following list, single capital letters stand for particular terms, words, or concepts which create the variations on the snowclone.

* In space, no one can hear you X. (Original X: "scream"; from tagline for Alien)
* All your X are belong to us. (Original X: "base"; from All your base Internet meme)
* Have X, will travel. (Original X: "gun"; from title of old US TV western Have Gun — Will Travel)
* To X, or not to X? (Original X: "be"; from Hamlet)
* X considered harmful. (Original X: "Go To Statement"; from title of computer science article by Edsger Dijkstra)
* X for fun and profit. (Original X: "Smashing the stack"; from title of Phrack article about Buffer overflows by Elias Levy; in turn modeled on how-to books since at least the 1930s, such as Working with Tools for Fun and Profit and Make Your Own Movies for Fun and Profit)
* Y is the greatest thing since X. (Original X: "sliced bread"; from reaction to 1930s Wonder Bread advertising campaign)
* These aren't the X you're looking for. (Original X: "droids"; from Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope)
* If we don't X then the terrorists win.
* X? We don't need no stinkin' X. (Original X: "badges"; first seen in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but popularised by the film Blazing Saddles.
* I, for one, welcome our new X overlords. (Original X: "insects"; from The Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer", where an ant floating past the TV camera on the space shuttle causes TV anchor Kent Brockman to jump to the conclusion that the shuttle has been taken over by a "master race of giant space ants.")
* If Eskimos have N words for snow, X surely have Y words for Z.
* X is the new Y. (see: The new black)
* X, France surrenders. (Memorable usage in Wired magazine headline "Fark sells out. France surrenders." A reference to the rapid surrender of France to Nazi forces in World War II.)
* Brother, can you spare a X? (Original X: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", Depression Era song by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney.)
* X $n, Y? Priceless. (From MasterCard advertising campaign)

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Future topics or buzzwords

2006-01-07T03:51:30Z

wearable computers

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Blogs as Memes

2005-12-28T03:27:18Z

http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2005/exhibitors/

A few others like Tribe...

http://www.imeem.com/aboutimeem.aspx

http://www.livejournal.com/

A current meme is blogs as marketing databases for consumer research, as you spill your guts & soul AI software is compiling profiles...

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WIKI Definition

2005-12-28T03:20:38Z

[This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself if you can.]

The term meme ([miːm] in the IPA; rhymes with "dream"; from the Greek word mimema for 'something imitated') often refers to any piece of information passed from one mind to another. In this sense, it relates closely to the academic study of folklore, in that folkloristics deals with the informal communication of cultural information. This usage more closely resembles the analogy of "language as a virus" than Dawkins' analogy (see below) of memes as replicating units. This definition has come into popular use on the Internet to refer to phenomena such as Obey Giant, "All your base are belong to us", Blogebrity and Icy Hot Stuntaz.

The term meme first came into popular use with the publication of the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in 1976. The conceptual framework is borrowed from genes -- the unit of biological transmission. By analogy with genetics, a meme is passed from generation to generation, with occasional "mutations," but is passed via family and cultural traditions or training rather than sexual reproduction. This analogy suggests that the definition of a meme should be the physical structure, or abstract code representing that structure, representing a real meme as observed in situ. Genes are not dependent upon their being transfer to be considered existent, they only need to have a definite and unique physical structure. The analogy should, properly, be extended to the concept of a meme.

Unlike genes, memes can typically be passed horizontally as well. Memes often occur in groups called "meme complexes," such as religious or political doctrine. Though Dawkins defined the meme as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation," memeticists vary in their definitions of meme. The lack of a consistent, rigorous and precise definition of a meme remains one of the principal criticisms leveled at memetics, the study of memes.

The notion of a unit of social evolution, and a similar term (from Greek mneme, 'memory'), first appeared in 1904 in a work by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon: Die Mnemische Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalenempfindungen, translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme.

Different definitions of meme generally agree, very roughly, that a meme consists of some sort of a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics). Dawkins introduced the term after writing that evolution depended not on the particular chemical basis of genetics, but only on the existence of a self-replicating unit of transmission — in the case of biological evolution, the gene. For Dawkins, the meme exemplifies another self-replicating unit, and most importantly, one which he thought would prove useful in explaining human behavior and cultural evolution.

Basic introduction

Though memeticists do not generally agree on a specific definition, one can roughly define 'meme' as any piece of information transferable from one mind to another. Examples might include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods.

Memes supposedly have, as their fundamental property, evolution via natural selection in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution, on the premise that replication, mutation, survival and competition influence them. For example, while one idea may become extinct, others will survive, spread and mutate — for better or worse — through modification. Note an important fact, however: not only the memes most beneficial to their hosts will necessarily survive; rather, memes supposedly spread best by functioning as the most effective replicators, which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.

An example of this would be memecomplexes (AKA "memeplex") as religion. In the case of Christianity, the memeplex evolved to form the Catholic church. Since the division of the Catholic and Protestant churches, individual memes have been added and deleted to form completely different memeplexes (religions) within the basic umbrella of Christianity, even within Catholicism or Protestantism.

History of the concept of the meme

The concept of the meme has a longer history than most experts would suggest. Plato used the term eidos to speak of the immutable and eternal nature of an existing thing. It was this eidos that the human mind acted upon when reasoning about the world around it. Aristotle rejected this notion in favor of an abstraction and categorization of the world, as percieved by the observer.

The next commentary was Descartes' enquiry into the nature and verifiablity of truth, especially his famous expository phrase "Cogito ergo sum". The concept was especially developed by John Locke and David Hume, two prominent British empiricists. At the time, the terms "idea", "perception", and "impression" came into being. The essential meaning of the term "idea", as it was used, was that it was some existent phenomena resulting from perception of a stimulus and cogitation of that stimulus. Beyond this central concept there is less agreement amongst those philosophers.

Charles Darwin himself struggled with the concept in his early notebooks (M and N Notebooks) and was never able to adequately address the complexities of the human social and cognitive capabilities. While Darwin lacked proof for a biologically heritable element, he had postulated one and seemed to be quite comfortable with the concept of biologically inherited social traits. The latter concept would likely be characterized by a modern biologist as Social Darwinism. Given the early events and tragedies of the century following Darwin's death it is easy to see why most modern scientists and intellectuals approach the meme concept with healthy skepticism and caution.

The concept of ideas that spread according to genetic rules predates the coining by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene; for example William S. Burroughs asserted that "language is a virus."

John Laurent in The Journal of Memetics has suggested that the term 'meme' itself may have derived from the work of the little-known German biologist Richard Semon. In 1904 Semon published Die Mneme (published in English as The Mneme in 1924). His book discussed the cultural transmission of experiences with insights parallel to those of Dawkins. Laurent found the use of the term mneme in The Soul of the White Ant (1927) by Maurice Maeterlinck and highlights its parallels to Dawkins's concept:

Maeterlinck, in discussing theories which attempt to explain 'memory' in termites as well as the other social insects (ants, bees etc.), uses the phrase "engrammata upon the individual mneme" (Maeterlinck, 1927, p.198). Webster's Collegiate dictionary defines an engram as "a memory trace; specif.: a protoplasmic change in neural tissue hypothesized to account for persistence of memory". Note that Maeterlinck explains that he obtained his phrase from the "German philosopher" Richard Semon. [1]

Laurent suggests that the etymological roots of the term 'meme' may come from mimneskesthai, the Greek verb for 'to remember, to keep in mind' rather than from Dawkins' root of mimeisthai, "to imitate."

Everett Rogers pioneered the "Diffusion of innovations" theory (formalised in 1962) which explains how and why people adopt new ideas. Rogers reflected some of the influence of Gabriel Tarde, who set out "laws of imitation" in his book of 1890 that explained how people decided whether to imitate behavior. Francis Heylighen of the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies has come up with what he called memetic selection criteria. These criteria opened the way to a specialized field of applied memetics to find out if these selection criteria could stand the test of quantitative analyses. In 2003 Klaas Chielens carried out these tests in a Masters thesis project on the testability of the selection criteria.

"Ideas have a life of their own"

The old saying "Ideas have a life of their own" clearly encapsulates the "meme about memes". Keith Henson has traced this quote back to 1910 where an unknown interviewer of Gilbert Keith Chesterton used it - apparently as an old saying at that time. (Reported in alt.quotations [2])

Memetics

Main article: Memetics

Memetics, the study of memes, remains a controversial field among many scientists and skeptics. Memetics originated when Richard Dawkins reduced the process of biological genetic evolution to its most fundamental unit: the replicator (or gene). Dawkins, in a search for parallels and other things that he might classify as replicators, suggested that the information and ideas in brains — culture, for example — could function as replicators as well. Computer software may represent another form of replicator with which evolution may eventually build grand things, whether socially as in the open source movement, or through the use of evolutionary algorithms.

Memetics takes concepts from the theory of evolution (especially population genetics) and applies them to human culture. Memetics also uses mathematical models to try to explain many very controversial subjects such as religion and political systems. Principal criticisms of memetics include the claim that memetics ignores established advances in the fields (such as sociology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, etc.) most relevant to the claims and methodologies of memetics.

The term memetic association refers to the idea that memes herd. For example, a meme for blue jeans includes memes for trouser-flies, riveted clothing, blue dye, cotton clothing, belt-loops and double-sewn seams. In this way, groups of memes can operate symbiotically (to use a biological analogy) in the sense that they act for their mutual benefit/survival.

The phrase memetic drift (formed by analogy to genetic drift) refers to the process of a meme changing as it replicates between one person to another. Memetic drift increases when meme transmission occurs in an awkward way. Very few memes show strong memetic inertia (the characteristic of a meme to manifest in the same way and to have the same impact regardless of who receives or transmits the meme). Memetic inertia increases when the meme transfers along with mnemonic devices, such as a rhyme, to preserve the memory of the meme prior to its transmission. See Telephone (game) for one example of memetic drift.

Memeticists generate much memetic terminology by prepending 'mem(e)-' to an existing, usually biological, term or by putting 'mem(e)' in place of 'gen(e)' in various terms. Examples include: meme pool, memotype, memetic engineer, meme-complex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

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These guys corraled a few new memes

2005-12-27T22:49:23Z

http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/archives.html

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Let's go..........

2005-12-27T22:36:05Z

All right, so let's begin..... My initial thought is to begin posting word combo's and juicy metaphors. Any thoughts on this?

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"The Anatomy, Life Cycle and Effects of the Phenomenologically Distributed Human Parasite M0"

2005-09-12T04:41:45Z

Here is an intriguing page attempting to describe a true memetic organism.

http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r1/

In a nutshell, it creates and then feeds on boredom, routine, and bureaucracy...

You can find other papers by the same author by going up one directory.

It's pretty out-there but intelligently written- the central thesis seems to be that the condition we call ADHD is the natural state, and what we call normal or sane is a cultural sickness.
He classifies people into "mappers" and "packers," two opposite ways of organizing one's perception of the world- and makes a convincing argument that the former is more valuable, but our culture has been constructed to reward and reinforce the latter approach.

Anyway- all of this is debatable- I personally think it is sound but oversimplified in its focus on dopamine, there are surely other factors at work. But I like the article because it introduces a way of looking human behaviour that is unfamiliar to most.

I think this would be a good forum to speculate on other self-contained memetic organisms. Where in our society they 'live', how they reproduce, what their food sources and waste products are. Think big...

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i dont egzacktly

2005-08-19T22:44:15Z

know,
What this tribe is about, but it sounds pretty fucking cool!

ok, so is somebody going to post a big long essay/explanation of all those, realy interesting words up there?

i realy would like to see/read about that.

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This is a tribe for the smart people?

2005-04-06T17:59:44Z

I am human, half a brain full of dramage but in control - crash landing in the tribe, is there any sign of life out there?

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meme-ories...

2004-12-13T08:17:13Z

last night while watching 'what the bleep..' for the first time i realized that memes are just parts of 'meme-ories', which are just echos of the future; memories of the past and 'memeories' of the future
good thing i rememebered...! :)

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Cool article about the plurality of perfection - wow

2004-10-20T09:46:30Z

There's more than one way to be perfect! Or, perfectly satisfied...

http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_06_a_ketchup.html

There are some very cool ideas in that article... it's long, so if you get bored, skip to the part about the scientist...

Courtesy of: The Arts & Letters Daily, a very cool ideablog site ( a great place to use for a home page; an easy way to install an idea a day!) www.aldaily.com.

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