Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA22088 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:54:49 +0100 Subject: Re: memes- remember them? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:50:41 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010411125051.AAA6886@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 04/11/01 06:10, Vincent Campbell said this-
>On this, does anyone know anything about theories of crowd behaviour,
>particularly early theories on this? A colleague mentioned something about
>this in relation to my presentation, but has cleared off on sabbatical.
I came across something which I think I posted here a whiles back which
was an article about some researchers who had discovered certain patterns
in large group behavior. I can't remember the source, or even the actual
predictions or patterns, but, I am pretty sure it would have some
relation to your stuff.
I was also going to mention, backing up into memetics once again, that it
is with some nod towards determinism, i.e. the deterministic facets of
behavior, that some people embrace memetics at all, looking for
persuasion techniques, and psychological alteration techniques, short of
actual torture and brain-washing, of course, although, I'm not sure where
to draw the intentional line in a lot of cases.
- Wade
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