Drilldown: //Grand Framework 0.1.0/Cliome
A Cliome is a portrait of a clion, or moreover a clion is the expression of a cliome. It is similar to a memeplex in that it is a group of memes but offers a wider definition more appropriate for examination within the grand framework.
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| Symbol | qoph | ||
| Namespace | GrandFramework_0_1_0.Cliome | ||
| Version | 0.1.0 | ||
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Properties
Elements: Collection of Meme (Portrait)
The following concepts could well be inherited with the other frameworks, but is probably best understood at the level of cliome.
CORE
A cliome’s core is the memetic payload. It is similar to Chomsky’s linguistic notion of a deep-structure which is not an expression in itself, but is expressed through a surface-structure in language. The core, through not being an expression makes it difficult to apprehend, manipulate and communicate, The core, deep-structure, of a cliome is therefore may be expressed in a variety of ways, as mathematical formulae, psudocode, executable software programmes, natural language, magic talismans, rituals, routines and competences, artifacts and so on. Ideally, any expression should be tranformable and translatable to any other expresssion. These are memes expressed as cultural traits. The Grand Framework is one possible means of expression, but was conceived specifically to facilitate cliological operations by being highly formalised. It is intended to be canonical, and the closest encoded abstraction to the core of a cliome and its components.
PACK
The packaging is how the payload is presented. Cliomes can be expressed in many ways. For engineering purposes, the Grand Framwork is offered. However, the frameworks require specialist understanding, whereas the purpose of cliology is to affect widespread culture; dedicated notation does not allow for mass uptake. The designer cliome therefore needs translating for consumption by the target audience (deme) and in a language that they will understand, and in a way that will appeal to them. The core (as expressed by framework formulae) needs re-expressing, or packaging in a language that allows it to be communicated. Theory and research, intended for academic consumption, is highly styalised, as are tabloid articles, soap operas, Hollywood blockbusters. Indeed the same core ideas may be presented to different audiences by adapting the way they are related to them. The pinnacle of message packaging is perhaps that found in advertising whereby effort is concentrated on speaking the customers language (graphics, copy etc.). International marketing and gender marketing are application where the same essential core message is being sent, but adjusted to highten its appeal the the specified demographic. For a cliome to be efficative, that is to produce the desired behaviour or belief in a sub-cultural population, then the core needs packaging in a way that it will attain uptake from a particular suceptable deme.
VECT
The vector is how the packaged payload is carried. For a biological virus such as rabies, a vector might be a dog or a bat. Vectorology is gene-threapy that introduces genetic material into the target cell. The word stems from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”) and is related to vehicle. In a cliome, the vector is the component that delivers the packaged memes through culture to the target audience. In its most basic form it would be like saying “pass this on”, or “share me”. A vector is considered as seperate from the payload, although in practice they may be too intertwined to distinguish.
BASI
Bassai Dai is an infection strategem. The term is Japanese referring to a Karate Do kata often translated as “storming the great fortress”. An example strategem would be that of a Trojan computer virus, named after the Greek trick of sneaking some soldiers into the city of Troy, hidden in the gift of a huge wooden horse. The packaging appears to be benign, but masks the dangerous payload. The trojan strategem is a familiar theme in memetics dealing with certain religions. Incombant memes that a deme adheres to, have some immunity to insurgent memes. There are numerous other ways of circumventing that immune response so as to get the payload into the deme. The Thirty-Six Strategems of Ancient China documents an array of ruses that can be considered in given situations.
Specific Classes
Specific Classes: Alpha Taxonomy
In brief
A cliome is practically synonymous with a memeplex as a cliome generally promotes the principle that a group of memes that operate together. There are some key features through.
- It expressly makes the genome-phenome analogue; the meme and its expression are often conflated.
- A cliome can, in principle, correspond to a single trait, though usually, it participates in some kind of collection. Memes and memeplexes strictly refer to one and more than one replicator respectively. A memeplex is considered for its viability; a cliome can, in theory, be any set of memes, viable or otherwise.
- It can form a hierarchical assembly – a cliome can give a component clion like an engine; or a wing; but these component cliomes can be put together as an assembly, a larger cliome which is expressed as an aircraft. Memeplexes are rarely afforded a hierarchical perspective.
- It is codeable and structured and can be sequenced (like DNA); it is contrived for intentional (engineering) purposes. Novel forms of clion, as expressions in behaviour and artefacts, are the product. Discussions on memetics have detracted from applied treatments.
- Where the idea of a memeplex focuses thought on the theoretical dynamics of memetic collusion for mutual self-interest, often at the expense of their hosts; a cliome emphasises the processes of encoding and expression.
A way of thinking of a cliome is like a portrait, (literally ‘for each trait’) each trait is made as a note in the sequence, thereby providing an encoded impression in information. Such a notation would bear some resemblance to a DNA sequence of the ACGT bases. We would then be able to provide a cliomic sequence for any object of culture and identify shorter coding sequences that specify sub-assemblies and interchangeable modules. With an informatic representation, the code for cultural objects can be communicated, copied, edited, possibly changed, recombined, spliced, and expressed. The cliome, therefore, is a metaphor aimed at the analogue of recombinant DNA technology. This paves the way for Recombinant Memetic Engineering (RME) for industrial development and applied cultural evolution.
A collection of cliomes constitute a gallery (perhaps museum?), or cultural cluster, that is amenable to taxonomic analysis. Culture herein is considered to be a vast gallery of portraits, an ecosystem of cliomes expressed as clia.
A visual metaphor would be that of a film reel. A film real consists of a sequence of still shots on a length of film, the length of film is fed in front of the projector lamp using motorised sprockets, which fit into the films sprocket holes on each side of the length of film. Together, the effect is that of a motion picture.
Metaphorically a film strip resembles a chromosome, the base-pairs being the film cells, and the phosphor backbone being the sprocket mounts. The chromosome is twisted and convoluted, in much the same way as a film reel in its can.
Consequently, the cliome were to mimic the genome, it would also have some resemblance to a film strip. Film, as an artefact, perhaps better represents the non-biological nature of the cliome. Ok, the metaphor is not perfect and isn’t intended to be, but rather, it gives some visual vehicle for understanding what is happening memetically. I have elected to use the film reel and, in keeping with hijacking the Phoenician alphabet, the letter “qoph” which has the hard sound of “cliome” and also looks a little like a canister with some film trailing out of it.
Cells are the memes (each trait), the film is the portrait, unravelled, projected or copied, rewound and stored. A cliome would be the film as a whole; different scenes as the sub-assemblies made from a sequence of shots: a series of memes, a portrait. The canister might be the capsid, like that of a virus.
Film studies, while mostly emphasising cinema, considers other forms of film broadly narrative, documentary, instructional and so on. We can begin to see, though the film reel metaphor, an overlap with narratology, as functional mythology. Indeed, this view gives purchase on the genre-genera problem of film classification. Furthermore, in looking at the evolution of narrative, in both wide and narrow senses, adaptation is literally (and literary) modification of a narrative for changes in audiences, media, and zeitgeist. Reboots, remakes, directors cuts, television or radio productions are created to appeal to contemporary audience reception. Narrative cinema is, of course, a portrayal of a story; instructional video, on the other hand, is a portrayal of something operational and practical: it is a vehicle that conveys behavioural functionality, a “how to” meme, as it were.
Symbol system
Cliomes, at whatever scope are denoted by the Phonecian ‘qoph’ symbol drerived for the hard q (ie. cliome)
This can be applied as a shorthand for the prefix “clio-“, or “cli-” as used in so much of this topic.
me, n, logy, technology, production, and so on.
Structural nomenclature of a cliome
Cliome hierarchical assembly tree and enumeration 1.3.2.1 or Trident.wing.flaps.hinge etc.
Cliome hierarchical decomposition
1 =((1.1 1.2 1.3.1 ( 1.3.2.1 1.3.2.1)) (2.1 2.2))
Qoph flattened into base memes
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A collection of cliomes (a gallery of portraits) would relate to a set of sub-cultural elements
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Origin and history
Dawkins described the meme as a second, non-biological, replicator that is expressed as a trait. The meme is considered as a fundamental unit. Blackmore suggested that a co-adaptive meme complex (memeplex), which is a composition of those fundamental meme units that have sustainable fitness and group together as a team for mutual self-interest. I habitually use meme to mean memeplex, but this is incorrect.
A meme therefor is a single (only one), atomic, indivisible, replicating idea; a memeplex also by definition is more than one meme: a composite (ie. greater than one). Although complex artefacts and ideas, such as an aircraft, or a religion are often described as memes, as wholes, but really they are expressions of memeplexes: their component traits though, are expressions of memes. Unfortunately, the terminology is open to confusion, especially with the popularity of internet “memes”.
To avoid ambiguity within the “Grand Framework” at least, the terms cliome and clion have been introduced. Clearly, they adhere to the “clio-” prefix, referring to the muse of history and fame. The clion (cultural linnean information object [nomenclature]) can be thought of as an artefact, much like an airliner, but can also be any expression such as a behaviour, a policy, an organisation, or product of a human artificer. A cliome, on the other hand, is the analogue of the genome: it is the replicating code that is expressed as a clion. A cliome then is the underlining replicating code for something in culture; a clion is an object in culture. To push the acronym perhaps a bit too far, a cliome is the “cultural linnean information object’s memetic elements”. A cliome represents a holon of memes (Koestler) therefore a whole and a part (greater than or equal to one) meme item. Theoretically, if not practically, a clion might exhibit a single trait. A cliome, informatically, is a structured collection of sub-cliomes, or memes. The cliome framework decomposes into memes.
Current version
CliomeFramework 0.1.0
Presently, the cliome is simply considered as a collection. As a class within the overall schema, it is of less importance and lesser priority for description than the other frameworks.
2019-05-15 Introduction of cli- prefix symbol as qoph