File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1996/96-06-marxism/96-06-26.161, message 69


Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 18:15 BST-1
From: jplant-AT-cix.compulink.co.uk (Jj Plant)
Subject: Re: List ecology 


In-Reply-To: <08454890200163-AT-turknet.com.tr>
> I guess the Life algorithm is too linear for the purpose. 
Let's see, if game
theory... Hey, hey, hey!

I used to love that game. I spent hours trying to cause 
collisions between 'crawlers' and 'motherships' that would 
give rise to  infinitely expanding systems. Never did get 
it sorted, but somebody told me once that Conway did it.
 
I was wondering more about meme theory. You could use it to 
model the effectiveness of propaganda methods. You could 
adapt it to take account of the real observed behaviour of 
'ideas' - sudden explosive outbreaks, persistent sources of 
infection that never spread far (cults), adaptive radiation 
 etc.

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