So, I am also saying: A zero-sum cost/benefit is
the end-product of genetic "selection" but is the
FOUNDATION for a memetic ordering. Beginning with
a *viable* meme (one in which cost/ benefit is,
for all practical purposes, balanced to 0=100%
[*chance*]), the replication of a memetic pattern
toward an "intentional" ordering is less dependent
on the benefit to the host than on the "benefit"
to the *meme* (such that the viral form of the
meme might infect the host in a more "general" way
than might be explained through cost or benefit to
the new host).
One way I have come to understand the
*generalized* ability for a meme to infect a host
is as follows:
A viable meme has a balanced configuration.
The progressive ordering of information suggests a
new balance.
The meme "divides" as regards the old and new
pattern.
Non-ordered information is attracted to this new
(as above) "viral configuration" (the *viral
configuration* contains attractors for (a)
information ordered according to the original
pattern, (b) information ordered according to the
superior pattern, and (c) *generalized*
information now ordered according to it's
"variability" as regards (a) and (b): That is,
the VIRUS-- representing both the inferior and
superior meme-- ALSO represents a generalized
state between the two which attracts GENERALIZED
information.* It is the generalizability of the
new information (chance info. not ordered by
either the old or new memetic patterns) by which
the viral meme infects the new host (such that
non-ordered information might become ordered
within the new host according to the pattern of
the superior memetic form).
AGAIN: What I am saying is that the cost and
benefit of a meme to the host is in the BALANCED
nature of the meme. A change in the cost/ benefit
configuration of the meme, itself, might only
affect the viability of the meme such that it
becomes viral and seeks balance within a new
host-- the *host's* only benefit is the ordering
of previously generalized information according to
the superior pattern of the evolved *meme* (which
is only incidental to the development of the
*virus* toward "chance" disorder-- as might
otherwise be explained according to cost/
benefit**).
*generalized information... with the understanding
that the meme is viable in that it contains
ordered information, "generalized" information is
so defined "un-ordered" info. As such, if "logic"
were a sign of memetic ORDER, generalized
information would be info. which is not logical.
As such, the "hook" by which the virus infects a
host is the hosts succeptability to the
dis-ordered "logic" which is apparently organized
by the virus (is perhaps "emotionally" encoded).
**as "cost/ benefit" might also be translated
chance distribution about a mean of zero (or,
simply, "Whatever might happen between the
positives and negatives that always add to
nothing")
B. Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
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