Having been a subscriber for only a couple of weeks, I have been
watching the amount of time and space devoted to the whole B/R business.
Based on the discussion that I've seen, it seems most likely to me that
Paul's suggestion that Richard and Brett are Co-conspiritors for the
following reasons:
1. Is appears that Brett, and his website, have been around long enough
to make it unlikely that Richard would go to all the trouble.
2. Brett did not seem that upset about Richard's remarks about him.
3. The impression I got of Richard after reading his book, makes me more
inclined to think that "The Experiment Ends" is his own 'clever' way of
starting the experiment.
Why?
The people in the group are accustomed to Richard's ideas (memes) as
well as Brett's. It would be an interesting experiment to take a group
of people, who are already meme-sensitive, and throw them into a state
of conflicting ideas and beliefs, because, after minimal input from the
experimenters, a new belief system should be decided upon by the members
of the group to be accepted as fact, regardless to the actual 'truth' of
the belief.
Unfortunatly, If enough of you agree with me, you will have also
satisfied his experiment.
Remember Parsons Grand Unification-
Adaptation
Goal Attainment
Intigration
Latent pattern Maintinence
Paradoxically,
Rob Beeston