(Foire aux idees ) Retour sur la conscience. J’avais mentionné précédemment que j’allais revenir plus en profondeur sur la question de la conscience, et de sa survie. Eh bien, voici quelques idées, à peine germées, qui trottent en ce moment dans ma tête. Pour commencer, un petit retour en arrière. À un certain moment de l’évolution de l’espèce humaine (vers l’homo habilis?) , un langage structuré rudimentaire s’est développé. Qui dit réseau ou système complexe, dit propriété émergente. Cette conscience, qui résulte du réseau d’information et l’aide à se développer, offre les mêmes caractéristiques que Jung attribuait à l’inconscient collectif, mais aussi celles qui sont attribuées par certains à une « Intelligence supérieure » ou un « Être suprême » (que je nommerai, afin d’augmenter la confusion, « Dieu »).
Qu’en est-il alors de l’âme (ou esprit). (Ideas) Consciousness. At a certain stage of our evolution (Homo Habilis?) , a rudimentary structured language developed. Probably holophrastic (i.e. one-word sentences) to begin with, then with two-word sentences. This contributed greatly to an increase in communication, and a perpetuating memory. This created an all new type of information network. This network is a complex system, which often means emergent features. In this case, it could be conscience. This consciousness, resulting from, and partly developed by, the information network, has similar characteristics as those ascribed by Jung to the collective unconscious, but also, by some, to a higher being/intelligence/entity (which, for the sake of brevity, I will call “God”). This could be one way of accounting the Jesus’ alleged statement about being the “son of Man”, the child of the entity which is the unification of human networks.
What of the soul (or spirit) then? Ben Laden existe-t-il ? Sont-ils plusieurs ? (Robotique, vie art. Revue n° 22 Retour au sommaire EditorialBen Laden existe-t-il ? Sont-ils plusieurs ? Jean-Paul Baquiast et Christophe Jacquemin Ceux qui ne sont pas encore convaincus de la nécessité d'étudier scientifiquement la mémétique pour comprendre le monde actuel sont susceptibles de changer d'avis en réfléchissant au cas "Ben Laden". Rappelons que la mémétique est, ou devrait être, la science des mèmes. Points faibles auxquels s'attaquer (cf. le fait qu'on suspecte actuellement une origine américaine aux attaques par les spores du charbon).
Mémétique, génétique et SMA (Robotique, vie artificielle, réalit. Bureau des Contagions. Société Francophone de Mémétique. O'Reilly Radar > Not 2.0? Tim Bray writes: I just wanted to say how much I’ve come to dislike this “Web 2.0” faux-meme. It’s not only vacuous marketing hype, it can’t possibly be right.
In terms of qualitative changes of everyone’s experience of the Web, the first happened when Google hit its stride and suddenly search was useful for, and used by, everyone every day. The second—syndication and blogging turning the Web from a library into an event stream—is in the middle of happening. While being completely right in the details (we are quite arguably on 3.0 or even 8.0 if we’re thinking about the internet compared to other software versioning), Tim is completely wrong about the big picture. Kevin Kelly wrote about this change at length in an article in the current issue of Wired: the key to success in this next stage of the web’s evolution is leveraging collective intelligence. You have to remember that every revolution occurs in stages, and often isn’t recognized till long after the new world is in place. Memetics. This article is related to the study of self-replicating units of culture, not to be confused with Mimesis.
Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.[1] Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. The meme, analogous to a gene, was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc.) which is "hosted" in the minds of one or more individuals, and which can reproduce itself, thereby jumping from mind to mind.
Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an idea-replicator reproducing itself in a new host. As with genetics, particularly under a Dawkinsian interpretation, a meme's success may be due to its contribution to the effectiveness of its host. History[edit] The modern memetics movement dates from the mid-1980s.