Or that the communication methods themselves are predisposed toward carrying a specific type of “social change” meme – twitter, for example, was predisposed to carry a ‘twitter revolution’ meme, regardless of any real world situation. Return to Page
A capsid is the outer protein shell of a virus, responsible for protecting the internal operating system of the virus, detecting suitable surrounding carriers for viral infection (i.e. cell walls) and for forming an opening into the suitable carriers. In memetics, the capsid is referring to the casing of a meme, or the point of [...]
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model of trend growth Anderson, Chris. (2006) The Long Tail. Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More Return to Page
This is, indeed, a shout-out: Rigorous Intuition is an interesting example of apophenionic symbology and hyperstition at play. Commentary on a culture and it’s institutions has become a kind of myth-making in its own right, and this particular blog deconstructs contemporary events in a very unique way. Return to Page
Currently this is a topic receiving serious attention from some people. We highly recommend these books by Howard Bloom as fascinating looks at behaviors of social groups as super-organisms: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century [...]
Think and Grow Rich is now in the public domain, which means I can embed the entire book here for you to read. In particular, be sure to read chapter 5 and chapter 14, in as much as those chapters deal specifically with aspects of a Master Mind Group (or Mastermind, as they’ve come to [...]
The interesting thing is that if computer viruses had been more widespread in the seventies when Richard Dawkins wrote this book, he might have used viruses and worms as a depiction of non-biological evolution rather than coining the term “meme.” See his speech here. Return to Page
Ellwood, Taylor, (2008) Multi-Media Magic, p.90. He comes to this definition after not one, but two chapters dealing with the range of definitions that have attempted to limit and contain the term Magic. Return to Page