Journal of Ideas
A 1990s archive on the evolution and spread of ideas.
Preface
What follows is an archive from an earlier moment in the discussion of ideas, culture, and cognition. It is dated, but not diminished. The memetic essays retain their bite, and the larger problems of mind and intelligence remain unresolved. That unfinished ground is the territory of Frontiers of Intelligence, and the Journal of Ideas may yet return in some continuing form.
Volumes
Volume 1
September 1990. Inaugural number. Memetics, cultural evolution, consciousness, and information theory.
Volume 2, Number 1
January 1991. Thought contagion, semantic structure, Principia Cybernetica, and brain and mind.
Volume 2, Numbers 2-3
April/July 1991. Locke, energy flow, cybernetic immortality, culture, free will, and machine consciousness.
Archive note
Republished archive. Local PDF files are available in the journal archive directory.