Why "Ideosphere"?

The word "ideosphere"





I am not sure off the top of my head where I first heard the word "ideosphere". It probably was in the book "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter. At any rate, just as "biosphere" refers to all the life in a system, and the interactions and interdependency of that life, the word "ideosphere" suggests an ecological relationship between all the symbols, belief systems, and ideas of the mind or society.

I felt that the word "ideosphere" would be a better word to have in the title for Web search engines to find. Although judging by the other stuff I find when I do a search on the word "ideosphere", I am no longer so sure. . . .

Perhaps I shall change it later.






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(Last updated 7/22/96)