Bill Roh
"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> I nominate Shannon & Weaver (who pioneered information
> theory), Von Neumann for many reasons (game theory, theory of
> self-replicationg systems, etc.), Charles Turing (for his
> test), Charles Sanders Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure and A. J.
> Greimas (who provided the structural underpinnings (semiotics) for
> the functional metaphor (memetics) - lesser lights include Louis
> Hjelmslev, Charles Morris, Thomas Sebeok, John Deely and
> Umberto Eco), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who described the root
> human situation of phenomenological ambiguity which permits the
> existence and appropriation of multiple stable but mutually
> exclusive memeplexes.
> I also support the creation of a separate pantheon of fiction
> writers such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Herman Hesse,
> Stanislav Lem, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Anthony
> Burgess, Vladimir Nabokov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jose
> Borges, John Barth, James Joyce, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas
> Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, J. D. Salinger and Nikolai
> Gogol, as literary uncles (feel free to add to this list).