Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Memes/reply (42)

Prediction is the problem. Although I suppose the prediction is that ideas that can be most easily bolted onto someone's existing beliefs will spread more than others. Thought that's almost so obvious it's not worth stating. I just like it in terms of how you can break ideas down into smaller units and see what looks the same in apparently very different activities. Then there's no more need for it to predict anything than music notation needs to predict anything, really. Again, handwavey, but no prediction is better than predictive qualities that are useless.