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.
Doorway
(Last updated 7/22/96)