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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:45:54 +0100
From: Bruce Edmonds <b.edmonds@mmu.ac.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Memetics JASSS paper by David Hales
Some of you may be interested in a paper which reports simulations using
"mini-memes" in the recent version of JASSS:
David Hales (1998)
An Open Mind is not an Empty Mind: Experiments in
the Meta-Noosphere
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 1, no. 4,
<http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/1/4/2.html>
Abstract
Using the "meme" conception (Dawkins 1976) of cultural transmission
and
computer simulations, an exploration is made of the relationship
between
agents, their beliefs about their environment, communication of
those
beliefs, and the global behaviours that emerge in a simple
artificial society.
This paper builds on previous work using the Minimeme model (Bura
1994).
The model is extended to incorporate open-mindedness meta-memes
(memes about memes). In the scenarios presented such meta-memes
have
dramatic effects, increasing the optimality of population
distribution and the
accuracy of existing beliefs. It is argued that artifical society
experimentation
offers a potentially fruitful response to the inherent problems of
building
new meme theory.
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Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling,
Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Bldg.,
Aytoun St., Manchester, M1 3GH. UK.
Tel: +44 161 247 6479 Fax: +44 161 247 6802
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce
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