> I think we can accept that articulation and intelligence are orthogonal ...
If by "intelligence" you mean innate mental ability, then I agree that
intelligence
and articulation are close to being orthogonal. I would add that thoughtfulness
is also orthogonal to both intelligence and articulation. Any one of the three
can
get you through college. This seems to work to the disadvantage of intelligent
and articulate people. (I think of thoughtfulness as an advantage obtained
through
education.) I've seen dozens of intelligent students who were able to get by
without
becoming more thoughtful.
So I take it you have a model of the mind as a vector that has components:
intelligence, articulation, and so on. And if you meet someone that thinks
the way you do, presumably the dot product of your mind with theirs is large
because you are both pointing in about the same direction. A meme, then,
is something that tends to align nearby vectors? I have a picture of the human
race as this vector field. Maybe I'm reading too much into your use of the word
orthogonal.
Is memetics something like that? Sorry, I'm new around here--there's probably
a faq I should have read, but I already typed this nonsense, so I think I'll
click
send....
BTW, the connection with game theory is fascinating--if psychology could
be reduced to game theory, I might even have a chance of understanding it--
maybe some day I'll even understand women! :o)
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