Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA02114 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:57:59 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:51:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Thoughts and Perceptions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <176.71474aa.29f5a4cd@aol.com> Message-Id: <FE67F11C-5621-11D6-8ED7-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 01:39 , <AaronLynch@aol.com> wrote:
> Perhaps there would be a school of physicists insisting
> that "the wave function is the behavior," and the like.
From the little I have seen of some physical models and maths being
applied to social structures, I've been personally enthused by fluid
mechanics, fractal and chaos maths, and economic and game theory- none
of which I am competent in or even understand on more than a rudimentary
level.
But, I really and actually do see some validity to saying things along
the line of 'the wave function of the behavior.'
So, in this sense, I likewise hold with -
> invoking concepts of
> "belief," "memory item," etc. in analysis of social phenomena
> strikes me as fairly unremarkable in the world of scientific postulates.
- postulates being just that.
- Wade
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