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WiSeAE56

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List of seminars realized in Winter Semester of 56th year of Unix Epoch.

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  • WiSeAE56
    List of seminars realized in Winter Semester of 56th year of Unix Epoch.
    ↝ is_linked → Matrix Room: edu-memetics ↝ is_linked → Matrix Room: AI-literacy ↝ is_linked → Onboarding ↝ is_linked → Session Structure ↝ is_linked → Minute of Silence
    • is_parent Memes, Mindworms, Memplexes &c.
      How do ideas spread, mutate, and survive? Why do we laugh when others laugh, adopt accents, hum songs that refuse to leave our heads, or suddenly find ourselves
      • is_parent Memes in Alltag 🔊
        Session 0 · Memetics begins at home.Before Internet memes, before ideology, before theory: gestures, tunes, habits, rituals, phrases, drawings, interfaces and e
        • is_parent Meme ·
          “A meme is whatever is copied from person to person.”— Susan Blackmore, working definitionFor today, let us start with this deliberately simple definition.
          ↝ is_linked → Saussure's theory of sign
        • is_parent Copied? ·
          Copying does not necessarily mean making an exact duplicate.You hear a joke.You remember the structure, forget several words, change a character......and tell i
        • is_parent Two Worlds ·
          external expression → perception → internal reconstruction → expressionA meme can appear outside us: as sound, gesture, image, text, object, ritual.It can be re
        • is_parent A Word of Warning ·
          Memetics is a theory among other theories.Human culture can also be studied through psychology, anthropology, sociology, cultural evolution, semiotics, media th
        • is_parent Not Everything That Spreads Is a Meme ·
          A virus spreads. That does not make it a cultural meme.Genes are copied. That does not make them memes.You discover by yourself that fire is hot. No person-to-p
        • is_parent Where Is the Meme? ·
          Is the meme the sentence?The idea expressed by the sentence?The memory in somebody's brain?The rule that allows the sentence to be reconstructed?The pattern dis
        • is_parent Memethical Engineering ·
          Memethical engineering is the deliberate design, modification, and circulation of memes and memetic environments in accordance with explicit ethical goals.For e
        • is_parent Engineering the Environment ·
          Memetic engineering asks: How can this spread?Memethical engineering must additionally ask: Should it spread?Who benefits?What disappears when it succeeds?Can p
        • is_parent Memes in Alltag
          Let us now temporarily leave theory behind.Look at ordinary life as a landscape of things passing from person to person.We will move from the smallest and faste
          • is_parent 1 · Contagion
            😮 yawning😂 laughter (e.g. Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962)👏 applause / standing ovation👀 looking where everybody else is looking🌊 the stadium waveThese ar
            • is_parent Experiment 🔒 ·
              One person suddenly looks intensely at the ceiling.How many people look too?Did information pass?Was anything learned?Would you call it a meme?
          • is_parent 2 · Gestures
            🤝 handshake ✋ high five 👊 fist bump ✌ peace sign 🫶 hand-heart air quotes 😘 kiss (hand ? cheek ? lips ?) nodding (vertical ? horizontal ?) A tiny movement can ca
            • is_parent Gesture = Movement + Convention ·
              The physical movement alone is not enough.A raised thumb means something because other people already know how to interpret it.The same movement can mean differ
          • is_parent 3 · Rituals
            🎂 birthday cake + candles + song + wish🥂 touching glasses before drinking🎆 counting down at New Year🪵 knocking on wood🤞 crossing fingers💰 throwing a coin into a
            • is_parent The Elevator ·
              Enter.Turn around.Face the door.Avoid prolonged eye contact.Become strangely silent.Who taught us this?Many everyday conventions are acquired without an explic
            • is_parent The Queue ·
              At the highest floor of the Eiffel Tower, there are two elevators facing each other. If human beings were fully rational beings, two equally long queues should
          • is_parent 4 · Words
            “Actually...”“However...”“You know?”“At the end of the day...”euh… [øː] , bah ouiблядь, f*ck, vole ...Language is full of units which seem to "live their own l
            • is_parent Catchphrases ·
              A phrase can detach itself from its original situation.It becomes reusable.People recognize it.They repeat it because others recognize it.Recognition itself can
          • is_parent 5 · Earworms
            A melody enters through the ears.Hours later it is still playing internally.You hum it.Somebody else hears it.Now it may inhabit another mind.An earworm is almo
            • is_parent Sound Memes ·
              nursery rhymesfootball chantsadvertising jinglesmelodies with changing lyricsTikTok audio fragments detached from their original contextThe carrier can change w
          • is_parent 6 · Drawings
            ♥ a heart that looks nothing like an anatomical heart★ a five-pointed star☀ a circle with rays🏠 a square house with a triangular roof💡 a light bulb meaning “ide
            • is_parent The Cool S ·
              Who knows how to draw the “Cool S”?Who taught you?Where did you first see it?Do you know who invented it?Why did generations of schoolchildren reproduce it?A ne
          • is_parent 7 · Interface Memes
            💾 floppy disk = save🔍 magnifying glass = search⚙ gear = settings🗑 bin = delete♥ heart = like☰ three lines = menuThe original object can disappear while its symb
            • is_parent Memes Can Outlive Their World ·
              Many people click a floppy disk icon without ever having saved a file onto a floppy disk.The symbol has become detached from the technology that produced it.Its
          • is_parent 8 · Fashion
            ripped jeansmulletsmoustachesCrocsrolling trouser legsparticular sneaker stylesblack clothing in particular creative milieusBodies become media.
            • is_parent Fashion Evolves ·
              Someone adopts a style.Others notice it.Some imitate it.Some exaggerate it.Some reject it.Some revive an older version thirty years later.Replication produces v
          • is_parent 9 · Food & Household Knowledge
            family recipessourdough starterscutting sandwiches diagonallyparticular ways of folding pizza“five-second rule”putting a wet phone into riceUseful, useless and
            • is_parent Transmission ≠ Truth ·
              A meme does not have to be true to spread.It does not have to be useful.It does not have to benefit its host.It merely needs properties that allow further trans
          • is_parent 10 · Social Formats ·
            the elevator pitchbrainstorming with Post-itsthe agenda slidethe TED-style talk“three things I learned...”the Venn diagramthe iceberg diagramSometimes the meme
          • is_parent 11 · Internet Memes
            image macrosreaction GIFs“POV:”“starter pack”“nobody: / absolutely nobody:”“tell me X without telling me X”“how it started / how it's going”The Internet did not
            • is_parent Template + Variation ·
              Internet memes make one property especially visible:a stable template + many mutations.Distracted Boyfriend.Drake Hotline Bling.Woman Yelling at a Cat.The image
          • is_parent 12 · Stories & Rumours ·
            urban legendsschoolyard rumoursghost stories“a friend of a friend once...”life hacksfolk explanationsStories are compressed, reconstructed and altered every tim
          • is_parent 13 · Beliefs ·
            superstitionsstereotypesideas about successideas about beautyideas about what a “proper career” looks likeideas about how families, schools or workplaces should
        • is_parent From Meme to Memeplex
          Memes rarely live alone.They support, trigger and protect one another.A fashion includes clothes, vocabulary, gestures, music, places and identities.A professio
          • is_parent Replication ·
            Something is encountered.Something is reconstructed.Something is expressed again.Another person encounters it.Replication does not require perfect duplication.
          • is_parent Variation ·
            Misremember it.Translate it.Improve it.Simplify it.Exaggerate it.Parody it.Combine it with another meme.Every transmission is an opportunity for mutation.
          • is_parent Selection ·
            Some variants disappear.Some are remembered.Some are repeated.Some fit a particular medium particularly well.Some become part of institutions and persist for ce
          • is_parent What Makes a Meme Successful? ·
            easy to remember?easy to reproduce?emotionally intense?funny?useful?beautiful?shocking?socially rewarded?already familiar?And are these the same properties that
          • is_parent The Memethical Question ·
            A communication system optimized only for replication may reward whatever replicates best.But the fastest-spreading cultural environment is not necessarily the
        • is_parent Exercise · Find One
          Think of one meme you encountered today.Not necessarily an Internet meme.Where did you encounter it?What was its external form?What did you reconstruct internal
          • is_parent Exercise · Classify It ·
            gesture?ritual?phrase?melody?visual convention?interface convention?fashion?social script?story or belief?memeplex?Or perhaps: not a meme at all?
          • is_parent Three Questions to Keep ·
            1. What is being copied?2. Why does this variant survive?3. What kind of cultural environment does its survival create?
        • is_parent Memes in Alltag ·
          A handshake.A birthday song.A stupid little drawing in a school notebook.A phrase you suddenly notice yourself saying.A floppy disk that survived its floppy dis
      • is_parent The Second Replicator
        Replication + Variation + Selection = Evolution
        • is_parent Before Darwin ·
          For most of human history, the diversity of life was explained by one simple idea: species are fixed, created once, unchanging.A rabbit begets a rabbit. An oak
        • is_parent Darwin's Insight ·
          In 1859, Charles Darwin proposed something radical: species are not fixed.They change, slowly, over generations — new species arise from old ones through
        • is_parent The Engine of Evolution ·
          Replication + Variation + Selection = EvolutionDarwin never used these three words this way — but this is the abstract engine hiding inside his argument.T
        • is_parent Replication ·
          Something must be copied from one generation to the next.Offspring resemble parents — not perfectly, but closely enough that traits persist.Darwin did not
        • is_parent Variation ·
          No copy is perfect.Within any population, individuals differ — in size, colour, behaviour, shape.Some of this variation is heritable: it gets passed on, i
        • is_parent Selection ·
          Not every variant survives. Not every survivor reproduces equally.Resources are limited; environments are demanding.Whatever traits make an individual slightly
        • is_parent Darwin's Finches ·
          In 1835, Darwin collected small birds across the Galápagos Islands — a few hundred kilometres off the coast of Ecuador.Back in London, ornithologis
        • is_parent One Ancestor, Many Beaks ·
          The beaks matched the food available on each island: hard seeds, soft fruit, insects, nectar.Darwin's explanation: all the finches descended from a single ances
        • is_parent Why Finches Matter ·
          The finches are not proof of evolution by themselves — but they are an unusually clean illustration of the engine in action, isolated on real islands, at
        • is_parent Universal Darwinism ·
          Darwin described biological evolution. But notice: nothing in the three-step engine mentions DNA, cells, or carbon chemistry.It only requires: entities that are
        • is_parent Beyond Carbon ·
          The pattern shows up again and again, once you know to look for it:your immune system selects among antibody variants for the ones that bind an intruder;compute
        • is_parent Dawkins' Reframing ·
          In 1976, Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene — and reframed the whole story.It is not organisms that are the true unit of selection, he argued. It
        • is_parent Replicators and Vehicles ·
          Two roles, easy to confuse:Replicator — the thing that gets copied. The gene.Vehicle — the thing that is built, survives, and reproduces, carrying r
        • is_parent A Question Dawkins Asked ·
          If the gene is just one possible kind of replicator……could there be others? Things that are copied, vary, and are selected — but are made of
        • is_parent The Second Replicator ·
          “I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet… I shall call it a meme.”— Richard Dawkins, The Selfish
        • is_parent Genes and Memes Compared ·
          Gene — replicated via reproduction; vehicle: the body; variation: mutation; selection: survival & reproduction.Meme — replicated via imitation;
        • is_parent Ideas in Motion ·
          We began with finches on volcanic islands and ended with an idea that may be living, right now, inside each of you.If memes are real replicators, then minds are
      • is_parent Imitation & development of human individual 🔒 ·
        Freud, Dawkins, Rizzolatti
      • is_parent Cultural evolution 🔒 ·
        Theory of cultural evolution. Excursion to Humboldt Forum, maybe ?
      • is_parent Visual memes – glyphs, emojis, latrinalia, artefacts &c. 🔒 ·
        Visual memes – glyphs, emojis, latrinalia &c.
      • is_parent Earworms, mindworms, moving memes::Fashion, Style, Art &c. 🔒 ·
        Earworms, mindworms, moving memes::Fashion, Style, Art &c.
      • is_parent Mediated memes, Urban memes 🔒 ·
        Mediated memes, Urban memes
      • is_parent Memplexes 🔒 ·
        Memplexes, Religions, Ideologies, Self-reference
      • is_parent Memes in Law, Politics & Propaganda 🔒 ·
        Memes in Law, Politics & Propaganda
      • is_parent Memes & Cyberspace 🔒 ·
        Memes & Cyberspace
      • is_parent Memes, Memecoins, AIs 🔒 ·
        Memes, Memecoins, AIs
      • is_parent Memes revisited 🔒 ·
        Memes revisited
      • is_parent The Congress 🔒 ·
        The Congress
    • is_parent Short History of the Learning Machine
      ↜ is_linked ← Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale
    • is_parent On Tracking : Dancing Piano II.
      • is_parent Pulse: How Fast Does a Body Move?
        • is_parent Welcome: Movement Has a Pulse ·
          Every movement, however free it looks, has a pulse. A step, a swing of the arm, a beat of a wing — each repeats, and each repetition takes time.This sessi
        • is_parent Period and Frequency ·
          A period (T) is the time it takes for one complete cycle of a repeating motion — one full step, one full wingbeat, one full swing.Frequency (f) is simply
        • is_parent The Pendulum: A Clock Made of Motion ·
          The simplest periodic body in physics is the pendulum: a weight swinging from a fixed point.Its period depends only on its length and on gravity — not on
        • is_parent The Heartbeat: Your Own Metronome ·
          The most intimate periodic motion you own is your own heart: roughly one beat per second at rest — about 60-80 beats per minute, close to 1 Hz.Under exert
        • is_parent Walking: Cadence and Stride ·
          Walking is periodic too: dancers and gait researchers alike call its frequency cadence — steps per minute. A relaxed walk sits around 100-120 steps/min, r
        • is_parent Running and Sprinting: Frequency Is Not Speed ·
          Speed is frequency multiplied by how far each cycle carries you — its amplitude, or in gait terms, the stride length.Sprinters increase both: a faster leg
        • is_parent Why Small Creatures Move Faster ·
          Remember the pendulum: a longer pendulum swings more slowly. The same logic applies to limbs and wings, which behave like pendulums built out of muscle and bone
        • is_parent Extremes in the Animal Kingdom ·
          A hummingbird's wings beat around 50 times per second (50 Hz) — fast enough to hover motionless in the air.A housefly's wings beat even faster, well above
        • is_parent The Piano String Analogy ·
          A piano string is, again, a pendulum in disguise — just a vibrating one instead of a swinging one.Short, thin, tightly-strung strings (the piano's high no
        • is_parent Tempo in Music: BPM as Period ·
          Music names the same quantity differently: tempo, measured in beats per minute (BPM).A tempo of 120 BPM means one beat every 0.5 seconds — a period of hal
        • is_parent Entrainment: When the Body Syncs to the Beat ·
          Entrainment is what happens when an independent periodic body — a footstep, a heartbeat, a swinging arm — locks its own frequency onto an external o
        • is_parent Tracking the Untrackable ·
          Measuring a heartbeat or a pendulum is easy. Measuring a dancer's full-body period, in real time, on stage, is not — which is exactly the technical proble
        • is_parent From Movement to Sound ·
          Once a movement's frequency is captured as a number, it can be mapped — frequency to pitch, amplitude to volume, period to rhythm — onto a piano, re
        • is_parent Closing: What's Next ·
          Today's vocabulary — period, frequency, amplitude, speed, entrainment — is the physical foundation for everything that follows in this course.Next s
    • is_parent Medienhaus Chronicle ⁄ Kastalia Project (VK & KuM only)
      • is_parent Kastalia KMS
        "... nichts entzieht sich der Darstellung durch Worte so sehr und nichts ist doch notwendiger, den Menschen vor Augen zu stellen, als gewisse Dinge, deren Exis
      • is_parent The story begins ... 🔒 ·
        Few narratives about Medienhaus, what is it, of what units it is composed and how Kastalia KMS born into existence.
      • is_parent Formats 🔒 ·
        HTML, LaTex, JSON & c.
      • is_parent Artefacts 🔒 ·
        Manuscripts, Books, E-Ink, Embooked AIs, Holograms
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