Archive for October, 2003
03-10-13
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03-10-13
Tags: Competition between Memes and Genes
Different selection criteriaWhen memetic and genetic fitness criteria are inconsistent, the different implicit objectives of memes and genes will lead to a direct competition for control of the carriers behavior. Both replicators have similar aims to the degree that they use the same vehicles: individual organisms. Everything that strengthens the […]
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03-10-13
Tags: Memetics Memetics Meme: an information pattern, held in an individuals memory, which is capable of being copied to another individuals memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes Cultural evolution, including the evolution of knowledge, can be modelled through the same basic principles of variation and selection that underly […]
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03-10-13
Tags: Memes: Introduction Memes: Introductionby Glenn Grant, Memeticist
“An idea is something you have;an ideology is something that has you.”
–Morris Berman
What if ideas were viruses?
Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot replicate itself; it reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing its host to make millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can […]
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03-10-13
Tags: Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource
Meme Central
Welcome to Meme Central, the center of the world of memetics. Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever […]
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03-10-13
Tags: EDGE 3rd Culture: DANIEL C. DENNETT Introduction byJohn Brockman
“The Evolution of Culture”Daniel C. Dennett
The Charles Simonyi LectureOxford University, Feb 17, 1999
The philosopher Daniel C. Dennett is interested in consciousness, and his view of it, similar to that of Minskys, is as high-level, abstract thinking. He is known as the leading proponent of the computational model […]
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03-10-13
Tags: Digerati: Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue1966McLuhan had pointed out that by inventing electric technology, we had externalized our central nervous systems; that is, our minds. Cage went further to say that we now had to presume that “theres only one mind, the one we all share.” Cage pointed out that we had to go […]
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03-10-13
Tags: THE THIRD CULTURE
In 1959 C.P. Snow published a book titled The Two Cultures. On the one hand, there were the literary intellectuals; on the other, the scientists. He noted with incredulity that during the 1930s the literary intellectuals, while no one was looking, took to referring to themselves as “the intellectuals,” as though there […]
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03-10-13
Tags: BookSurge Dorion Sagan
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03-10-13
Tags: Edge: JOHN SKOYLES John R. Skoyles Dr. JOHN R. SKOYLES is a Graduate, London School of Economics;Postgraduate, University College London; and Former MRC funded neuroscience researcher who is a researcher in the evolution of human intelligence in the light of recent discoveries about the brain.His projects and papers include Origins of modern cognition;The alphabet and […]
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03-10-13
Tags: Cogprints - Vowels of civilization Full text available as:HTML
Vowels of civilization
Skoyles, John R. (1988) Vowels of civilization. New Scientist 120(1644/1645):69-73.
This is the latest version of this eprint.
Abstract
Language makes us human, writing makes us civilized, did the Greek alphabet make us modern? Here I argue that the Greek alphabet is unique both in terms of the […]
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03-10-13
Tags: Up From Dragons The Evolution of Intelligence
JOHN R. SKOYLES AND DORION SAGAN
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03-10-12
Tags: 2 things need to be taken care of:
1. make sure Perl is in the path.
2. add handler in httpd.conf to handle *.pl as CGIs.
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03-10-11
Tags: AnandTech View FAQ
How come my 4.7 GB disc isnt really 4.7 GB?
Like hard drives, 1 GB on a DVD recordable disc equals 1 000 000 000 (109) bytes. In contrast, a computer considers 1 GB to be 1 073 741 824 (230) bytes. Thus, a 4.7 GB disc is seen by a computer as […]
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03-10-10
Tags: eprints.org - Home
Introduction
Welcome to eprints.org, dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving.
Projects at eprints.org
Self-Archiving FAQ
Answers to most of the questions you might have about self-archiving. There is also a Glossary of Terms in case you find yourself wading in jargon.
GNU EPrints
The GNU EPrints self-archiving software, has been developed […]
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03-10-10
Tags: Alphabet and the Western mind Alphabet and the Western mind Alphabet and the Western mind. John R. Skoyles. Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics John Skoyles Website Nature, (1984), 309, 409-410. Is the rise of rightward alphabetic writing and the start of Western civilization with the Classical Greeks coincidence or causal? Here I argue […]
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03-10-10
Tags: OpCit e-Services Screen Shots
OpCit e-Services
Simon Kampa
Overview
The e-Services framework was constructed under the OpCit project with the purpose of providing advanced services over literature data. OpCit provides extensive citation linking over a large collection of papers in the physics discipline (as well as some citation-based services with citebase), which provide scholars with a unique method […]
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03-10-10
Tags: ParaCite: An Overview
Introduction
Michael Jewell
As an increasing number of authors are publishing articles online, there is a very real need for a simple way to build links between an online document and the documents which it cites. ParaCite was created in parallel with the EPrints.org software as a possible solution to this problem, and […]
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03-10-10
Tags: ParaTools Reference parsing modules and templates
ParaTools v1.00 available for download
27/01/2003 (Updated 29/01/2003)
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The first release of the ParaCite Toolkit (ParaTools) is now available for download.
Created at Southampton University as an offshoot of the OpCit and EPrints projects, ParaTools is a set of Perl modules for the handling of references. It includes:
Document parsing modules (Experimental)
OpenURL creation/processing […]
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03-10-10
Tags: GNU EPrints 2 - Home
GNU EPrints 2
The latest version is EPrints 2.2.1.
EPrints is free software which creates online archives. The default configuration creates a research papers archive, but could be used for other purposes.
This website - software.eprints.org - deals only with the software, which was developed as part of projects at the University of […]
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