This makes sense to me. Rarely has a complex system (e.g. biological,
economic, social) been modelled accurately enough to do justice to the
system itself.
But it is interesting to approximate the functioning of a system via a
reasonably simple mathematical formula, fractal based or not.
>There is the additional problem that far too often outrageous memes become
>popular...
>ie: do not spiral off to infinity.
This would depend on your definition of outrageous? :) Simple example:
some of the memes that I and my friends would be infected with would not
likely infect my grandmother...
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