A Social Algorithm

by Michael Le Page

Once upon a time, a student of molecular biology became curious about why his ideas should be the way they are. The ideas lived happily ever after.This text started as a collection of thoughts and ideas aimed at achieving personal clarity. It developed into something more What if someone could encapsulate their world view so completely that the ideas took on a life of their own? What is it which is special about those collections of ideas which have taken on lives of their own in the past? I think there is very specific set of characteristics that define these collections of ideas above and beyond the idea of a "meme complex" (a set of mutually supportive ideas), in the same way there is a very specific set of characteristics that define life itself as more than a collection of nucleic acids, lipids, proteins and carbohydrates. It is this specific subset of "meme complexes" that I call "social algorithms", and this text has become my attempt to create my very own "social algorithm". Writing it has helped me find It is my hope that reading it will help other people to find their own clarity.

74 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 26, 2012

About the author

Born in 1983 in St Louis, USA, Michael Le Page arrived in Australia at the age of three. He is a medical scientist, composer, author and entrepreneur living in Perth, Western Australia, dedicated to the idea of combining those cross-discipline interests creatively to find original perspectives on difficult problems.

His first ebook "A Social Algorithm" is an attempt to commit the entirety of his worldview to text in an effort to find clarity. It is the scientific method applied to introspection.

The second ebook "Keep off the Grass" is a collection of nine short horror stories based on his nightmares.