Meme Spaces
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As noted in Foundations -- Memes, Resources, Agents and Services, the definition of meme adopted by the MAP is quite broad; encompassing any idea, symbol or practice that can be transmitted via writing, speech, gestures, rituals, images, video or any other "imitable phenomena". As such, memes are already ubiquitous and continue to proliferate in a plethora of forms.
It is not practical, necessary, or even worthwhile to restate all of these memes within the MAP platform. What's novel about the MAP's treatment of memes is:
The intent to view memes, collectively, as comprising a global meme pool on which to draw as we re-conceive our culture. This means increasing the visibility, searchability and, thus, discoverability of the full cross-section of memes.
The ability to explicitly express and navigate relationships between memes and agents, resources, services and other memes. This implies the ability to uniquely identify memes.
The ability to adopt a meme-centric view within which all of these relationships can be seen and navigated in alignment with the MAP's omni-centric principle.
The information maintained in the MAP for a given set of memes is defined by an (L1) memetic ontology. The ontology specifies, the set of properties, relationships and actions that are availble to be populated for the set of memes described by that ontology. Like the memes themselves, memetic ontologies are also extensible -- i.e., they can be crowd-sourced. In support of the self-describing principle, ontologies can, themselves, be stored in the MAP within Meta-Spaces.
In this way, the MAP offers an open-ended method for capturing and evolving a global body of knowledge. That said, proliferation of different independent ontologies tends to create independent islands of knowledge. To bootstrap the initial set of meme pools, the L1 MAP Ontology leverages the Basic Formal Ontology (ISO/IEC 2183802) to promote inter-operability between different emergent crowd-sourced ontologies.
for example, that memes may have names, descriptions, functional areas, parent memes, stewarding agents, related resources (e.g., books, podcasts, videos, ...), agent-assigned reputation scores, etc.
A given meme can have multiple locale-specific expressions. A locale is a standard identifier signifying a specific language and a set of cultural conventions (e.g., conventions for writing dates, times, numbers, currency, delimiting words and phrases, etc.)
The global meme pool is sub-divided into a set of Meme-Spaces. locale (i.e., a language and a set of and quoting material.as specified by the ISO/IEC 15897 standard).
meme as replicator (Dawkins, Blakemore) within evolutionary process -- allude to evolution of structure of consciousness/civilization -- Gebser, Merlin Donald, Arthur Young, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Ken Wilber, Roger Briggs
meme-meme relationships (memeplex, shift, menome, locale-specific expression)
Agent-meme relationships -- curator, steward, suppressed, exhibited/expressed,
locale -- a standard identifier that specifies a
Classifying memes: functional sector, type (atomic, memeplex, meme family, ...), category (principle, value, governance model, ...) memetic shift
Like the memes themselves, memetic ontologies are also extensible -- i.e., they can be crowd-sourced.
Each memetic ontology has an associated Meme-Space that includes the set of memes described by that ontology.
Define the initial MAP meme-space hApp. I18n/L10n. meme-relationships (e.g., memetic shift). Note that L1 can include a memetic ontology that can be specialized at L2 (without replacing it altogether). Make an attempt at defining L1 memetic ontology within BFO context.
3-level structure of Creative Commons when describing (some kinds of) meme: (1) legal, (2) human readable, (3) machine-readable -- the latter is especially powerful when used in conjunction with the cryptographic techniques. Ability to resist enclosure by corporate or state interests. MAP has the complementary purpose of protecting the privacy of data from exploitation by others. -- define the additional data sharing restriction types and candidate agreement types. Ability to foster the emergence of self-organizing communities.
memetic alignment between memetic signatures.
memetic shifts
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