List,
I think the radical departure is in the idea that showing someone a pattern
will elicit specific behavior...that patterns "create" behaviors.* I also
think that the definition is broad but should a "pattern of patterns" be
discovered which is seen as basic to all memetic manipulations...then THIS
pattern (process, entity...) will also be covered by the definition. The
same was true for the discovery of disease causing bacteria--the behavior
was noted then the mechanism found...the same was true for Darwin and the
gene...the same for the discovery of Pluto based on astronomical
calculations, etc.
*MEMETICS says that looking at my "cooperative t-grid", for example,
(http://www.tctc.com/~unameit/gridthre.gif) will cause a change in
behavior...neither psychiatry, nor anthropology, nor philosophy, nor
mathematics, etc. predicts this or gives an explanation for it which applies
all the way to the evolutionary level.
Brett
Returning,
rBERTS%n, USA
Rabble Sonnet Retort
This line from Shakespeare has delusions of grandeur.
Douglas R Hofstadter
