Sleep deprived

Oh, look, I have a blog.  It got lost, but in stumbling around while functionally asleep, I seem to have found it again.  Meanwhile I started another one.

Hmm.

The VR experiments are on carolynnicita.com.
My attempts at writing a thousand words a day, and thus maintaining my ability to create words, are on carolynnicita.blog.

The fractals are on Deviant Art, although I don't like some of the changes I made. A bunch are also on the Carolyn Nicita Facebook page.

I have a few books up on Amazon and the other book sites.

I think I have a Google Plus account somewhere.

My current project is called Resonois.

There.  Now I'll pin this onto the wall, and maybe Ill read it and organize my web presence and creative stuff when I wake up.

P. S.: The sound and music are going into the VR.

Comic-Con and Transmedia

They're letting me show my fractals at the Comic-Con art show. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Whoa.

Anyway, I decided to refresh my line of thinking on transmedia because I'm going to experiment with applying those principles on a microscopic scale. I'm not a corporation, yet, so it has to be microtransmedia or some such thing.

Wish me luck.

Conduit

My next foray into public will be at the Conduit science fiction convention:

http://conduit.sfcon.org/

unless I find something fun before that.

What is a Stochastic? And how can I make mud pies with it?

I've been given another hint about all of this by Dr. Patricia Manos Kraemer, pilot extraordinaire (oh yes, she also gives out NIH government grants to researchers who are studying brains[note: I often study brains but am sadly ineligible] )

She looked at a passage in one of my emails and instead of giving me the usual "huh?" comment, promptly labeled it an example of stochastic thinking.

Hey, new phrase! Of course I have to look into it.

The most common words associated with this are "aiming" "random" and "probabilistic".

Maybe that's why I like fractals so much.

And it looks like a concept which will contribute to this line of exploration perfectly.

Note to self: Look into stochastic modeling and become enlightened. Report back here soon.

Exploding the Metademiurge

The word metademiurge can be exploded thusly:

Meta -- In the middle, in common, changing places with something, going to a higher level. Also participating in something. Common words with the meta- prefix: Metamorphosis, metanovel, and metanoia.

Demi -- Half, or middle. Demigod: also related to the word medium.

Urge -- An action. Impetus. In this sense it's used to draw your attention to the systemic process itself rather than the identification of the thing.

Demiurge -- A subcreator of the world. Also, a skilled worker.

Wherein Carolyn Wonders Whether a Metademiurge Named Seymour Can Ever Find Happiness

II'm trying to understand how a mythos, a meta-entity, grows and develops. I'm trying to see its life cycle, how it grows over time, what makes some of them thrive and what makes some of them perish.

The entity which creates this is a metademiurge.

I made up the word metademiurge up so I could figure out this mystery without running into preconceptions. I have to stop trying to equate it to established concepts -- especially in terms of established showbiz concepts. As soon as I do that, the other parties change their expression and to this "I know what you're talking about" facial set and I know they've made an instant assumption. Worse, they then try to give me advice on what I should do when I grow up.

It might be a point-of-view disconnect.

They are taking it as "What do I want to do with my career," or "how do I get rich," or "what should I write." That's certainly part of it, and as an egocentric human behing I'm going to look at that facet more closely, just as if I were driving on the freeway and saw CAROLYN NICITA on a billboard it would draw my attention.

But that's not the point.

They also assume I'm talking about fantasy franchises. Perhaps again that's my fault, because I know fiction best, andI've been talking, in many cases, to people who best know fiction.

But this concept also deals with physics, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and veterinary science.

These thoughts may take me nowhere and I might just give up on them.

But if I can find what I'm looking for, which, heck, might just be a point of view, then perhaps I can use it as a tool to answer some other questions. I'm hoping it will be similar to the "secret equations and stock models" investors swear that Charles Schwab uses, or perhaps even an orrery, where I can see this type of entity in action, understand how it works, and then figure out how to use these principles in whatever endeavors I choose to pursue.

Unfortunately, there exists quite a bit of information, models, equations and the like, that sortof-kindof look like what I'm looking for. It's unfortunate, because that's how the preconceptions breed.

I know that principles, once established, tend to stay the same (The mitochondrial cycle. The way ASCII codes ones and zeroes into letters and numbers. Sock gnomes.)

And then there are those things which change as demographics, technology, tastes, and the air pollution index changes. But you can still measure these changes by using those things you have determined won't change, right?

As I said, I don't like the current terminology.

For a Heisenbergian example, I know that growing this entity involves marketing. But as soon as I use the M word (as in marketing), I've changed the entity. People jump to the conclusion that I am no longer trying to involve them in a shared mythos; I am trying to shove ideas down their throats and hold them up for money.

In physiological terms that's the difference between breathing on a plant because it uses carbon dioxide, and cutting your hand so you can bleed on it and fertilize it. It isn't picking a leaf off because in some cases, that's involved in a natural exchange.

All right, so's getting your butt chewed on by a lion, I admit. But the point is, each physiological function should be in its best place.

And in the thing I'm talking about, I want a term that involves the function of marketing but involves more breathing and less butt-chewing.

Now to use a more specific example, some of my friends hear the work "networking" and treat it like they have to go to Facebook, open a vein and bleed on their project to fertilize it. What kind of physiological process is that? How long do you think that's going to be sustainable? (Feed me, Seymour!)

So is the problem the way they're treating the words "marketing" and "networking"? Or is it that they don't see the whole picture (actually when I get done with the model, it might end up looking like a multiplayer video game).

Fine. Is the problem with the picture that it's actually a MMORPG and they don't even know what that is? How do you know when to swing the axe if you don't even know what buttons to push, let alone what game you're playing? Hey, the term "party" means something completely different now...

(No I'm not trying to make an MMORPG. That was merely an attempt to define terms, and I like playing MMORPGs.)

But the model itself--that would have to include entities that are parasitical, because they do exist. In fact, in mythos, that would be the "tortured artist" trope, wouldn't it?

Think....abstract. Think...math. Calculus. (EEK!)

Right, that's scared everybody away. I think I'll go make oatmeal cookies now.

Forty-Two

I'm posting this idea out of sequence, because I usually have ideas out of sequence. Why? Because it's What I Do.

I'm wondering if 42 (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) or "It's What I Do" (from Stargate) count as memes yet. To me they are allusions.

An integral component of new media, viral media, or in my nomenclature -- the demi in Metademiurge, is the interchange of these allusions.

In terms of an organic life, a virus (viral video, yes?) propogates by injecting its own DNA into the host cell. The host cell then takes on the identity of the virus.

So that might mean that Charlie the Unicorn, having mostly original (copyrightable) content as far as I can tell, is actually bacterial video.

I watched Madagascar 2 again last night. They alluded to The Lion King, Joe vs. the Volcano, and pop songs (Boston and Barry Manilow among others). I'm sure Dreamworks paid fees to use these.

Pixar's movies will have allusions to smaller, sometimes very small memes (did I use that right?). I have recognized (and sometimes been the only one laughing in the theater at) the 42 meme, Mount Wanna Hawk a Lougie, " and the horse video in UP.

Still trying t figure out the implications of that.