Hi,
Tim Rhodes <proftim@speakeasy.org> writes:
<<
You're probably right, Tim. I've got some ideas --
(1) Necessary conditions for nomination
I think how we elect our saints is perhaps more important -- from a
memetic perspective -- than who we elect. The process of nomination,
debate, election and cannonization will be central to the continued
life of the memeplex (Brodie's use). Who we elect might _seem like_
the important question, but in all reality, establishing a method of
creating saints is the really important part of the equation, and the
aspect that can enable the well established process to outlive any one
of us.
>>
(a) had novel ideas (hopefullly related to Virus)
(b) ???
conditions to become a saint)
(I'm thinking that council might be useful for lots of other things
too...)
While we're on the topic of Saints, I think it would be cool to change
the main Virus page, which quotes Darwin, to read instead
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,
having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and
that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed
law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most
beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
No point having Saints if we don't plug them...
--> if we can prove sufficient conditions, then we can skip the
voting process
— Saint Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species"
^^^^^
ERiC