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[interaction] Email Frankie Francis

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:00 am

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RothkoWoofed

I've just got this back from Frankie:

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:10 am

Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

oh, look at the cool promises from Dr. Frankie.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:14 am

tim7168

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:24 am

WolfHawk

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:00 pm

WolfHawk

I decided to email her too:

**Posted:** Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:36 pm

mgelles · Decorated Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 210

I sent

Dear Dr. Francis,

I realize several of my friends have already made contact with you and I'm a bit let to the party as it were> I too have been keeping track of Eva's struggles, however I'm also a full time graduate student which leaves me precious little time for things such as communicating with friends as I'm sure you can appreciate. Nonetheless as a student of education and communication who is pursuing an MA in Adult Education and Communication technology, I was very excited to come across your research. The term meme was not altogether unfamiliar to me as a student of those two fields. I'd been vaguely familiar with the term as "a unit of memory in the brain" or as a unit of shared meaning and culture" but though culture and meaning are not consciously agreed upon , I understood it to be a result of conscious communication (speech, written or electronic means). I'm intrigued at the notion of its going beyond that. The notion of communication from "mind to mind" takes it almost to a metaphysical level. Certainly the formation of a new sentience as you seem to suggest with the subject website raises a host of questions

Is this formation a result of conscious or unconscious efforts?

Is it's sphere of knowledge and control limited to webbased communication or can actual communication between the entity and the minds of the involved individuals occurs?

Can it exert influence over them and other objects in the physical world both animate and inanimate?

Thank you for indulging my academic curiosity.

Yours,
Michelle Gelles
MA Candidate Adult Education and Communication Technology
Indiana University of PA

**Posted:** Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:01 pm

Pied Piper · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 362

Geist Grid plot?

**Posted:** Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:11 am

Pied Piper · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 362

Contacting Frankie

**Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:02 am

WolfHawk

I never got anything from Frankie. I didn't email Wilson.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:08 am

Pied Piper · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 362

I tell you, what is the point of having her email up there if she's never going to answer it?

On the other hand, maybe they are leaving us to our own devices on purpose...

**Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:54 am

nitefoll

I didn't get any replies either, but that email address has served it's purpose for now. I reckon that the game is about to ramp up. I get the feeling we've really only been playing a kind of pre-game, keep us interested while the real game prep is happening?!

**Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:32 am

Rekidk

Actually, there was a news article on the Watershed website that indicated that the game would last exactly eight weeks, starting January 14. So it looks moreso like we're entering the endgame, rathering than just starting.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:52 pm

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