Comments on: Fun With Convergences http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:27:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: nother http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70939 nother Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:09:35 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70939 Robin, I freakin love your dust convergence; both the visual images and written description! This is one of those shows that I wish you had let warm up for a while. We would inspire each other (as you just did for me) to recognize the convergences all around us. Robin, I freakin love your dust convergence; both the visual images and written description!

This is one of those shows that I wish you had let warm up for a while. We would inspire each other (as you just did for me) to recognize the convergences all around us.

]]> By: pgutwin http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70938 pgutwin Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:43:20 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70938 My world is much less visual - I find convergence points in philosophy, religion and science. These patterns repeat themselves over and over again... Does this represent the same kind of convergence? My world is much less visual – I find convergence points in philosophy, religion and science. These patterns repeat themselves over and over again…

Does this represent the same kind of convergence?

]]> By: Lairdchristensen http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70937 Lairdchristensen Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:41:17 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70937 I think this may be another dimension of "memes," those units of cultural tranmission described by Richard Dawkins: /meem/ [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins's term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating them much as viruses do. Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea. I think this may be another dimension of “memes,” those units of cultural tranmission described by Richard Dawkins:

/meem/ [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins’s

term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with

the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating

them much as viruses do.

Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas

can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some

ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through,

for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to

produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.

]]> By: loki http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70936 loki Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:01:45 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/fun-with-convergences/#comment-70936 Does this relate to Jung's idea of synchronicity? Does this relate to Jung’s idea of synchronicity?

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