Weaponized Sacredness http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/ … ...in case you thought ritual was a fun and safe hobby
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@othercriteria@cathodion@sarahdoingthing A thoughtform that invokes/spawns secondary riots as a tool is something v. complex eg Marxism. -
@othercriteria@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Another analogy to throw on the pile here: Conway's Life. Glider gun complexity >>> glider. -
@othercriteria@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Think of humans as the cells, speech as the transition rule... -
@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Taking this chance to flog my weird Life variant, and its egregoric reading. http://mesokurtosis.com/posts/2015-02-19-lif.html … -
@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Humans are cells, speech conveys rules, complex rules lose to simple ones, empty humans get susceptible. -
@othercriteria@sarahdoingthing somehow this gives me (?)insight that fitness w/in a meme's domain is v. diff. from its fitness at boundary -
@othercriteria@sarahdoingthing successful egregore must win at boundary with/in competition against others, without tearing itself apart - 8 more replies
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@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Speech seems privileged, but enough other examples that seem non-central but not exceptional. -
@othercriteria@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Be interested to hear examples you have in mind -
@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Eusociality, symph orch, mime troupe, running groups, auto traffic, (fictional) Echopraxis dance infect. -
@othercriteria@St_Rev "'speech' interpreted broadly to include any attempts to communicate information symbolically, as in art or ritual" -
@sarahdoingthing@othercriteria other eusocial critters rely on scent cues and now I'm imagining a rich artistic tradition of ppl farting on -
@St_Rev@othercriteria ooooh like the vonnegut aliens that can only communicate by tap dancing and farting - End of conversation
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@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing (I want to dive into this but gotta sleep.) Yeah, speech is important and not just for channel capacity.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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