Ideosphere

The ideosphere, much like the noosphere, is the realm of memetic evolution, just like the biosphere is the realm of biological evolution. It is the "place" where thoughts, theories and ideas are thought to be created, evaluated and evolved. The health of an ideosphere can be measured by its memetic diversity.

The ideosphere is not considered to be a physical place by most people. It is instead "inside the minds" of all the humans in the world. It is also, sometimes, believed that the Internet, books and other media could be considered to be part of the ideosphere. Alas, as such media are not aware, it cannot process the thoughts it contains. Also, like the biosphere, it also has niches, which serve as environments for groups or audiences.[1] For instance, an ideosphere is formed around a linguistic system that involves a mixture of cynicism and sentimentality as well as the violent appropriation of the other's word.[2]

Aaron Lynch claims[3] to have co-invented this word with Douglas Hofstadter in the mid-1980s.

According to philosopher Yasuhiko Kimura, the ideosphere is in the form of a "concentric ideosphere" where ideas are generated by a few people with others merely perceiving and accepting these ideas from these "external authorities." He advocates an "omnicentric ideosphere" where all individuals create new ideas and interact as self-authorities. There is the notion that most of humanity remains the consumer instead of producer of ideas. To address this, Kimura proposed the so-called ideospheric transformation, triggered by a synergetic phenomenon produced by the emergence of a sufficient number of authentic and independent thinkers.[1]

See also

References
  1. James, Craig A. (2010). The Religion Virus[not for sale on Google Play]: Not available on Google Play. John Hunt Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 9781846942723.
  2. Olsson, Ulf (2013). Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 116. ISBN 9781349468645.
  3. "Lynch's claims". Archived from the original on 2006-05-16. Retrieved 2006-03-09.
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