RE: virus: MS Weapon

Richard Brodie (RBrodie@brodietech.com)
Sun, 12 Oct 1997 15:50:48 -0700


On Sunday, October 12, 1997 3:47 AM, Robin Faichney
[SMTP:r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk] wrote:
> You mean, there's a match between the patterns inside
> our heads and those outside?

No, I don't mean that. I mean that our minds create patterns that
approximate similar bits of reality. These matches are neither right nor
wrong except as used for a particular purpose.

Or else: what could
> match a pattern, besides another pattern?

Patterns "match" data to an arbitrary degree of precision.

> > Science creates predictive theories.
> >
> By finding consistent patterns, no? A good theory is a
> good match to a consistent pattern.

Sure, and by using consistent words and typing up the result in a
consistent font and publishing it in a consistent journal read by a
consistent group of scientists. So what? These things are all ancillary.

Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Author, VIRUS OF THE MIND: The New Science of the Meme
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
Visit Meme Central: http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm