ABSTRACT
Pattern, the Language of Nature .............................................................................81 Words, Phrases, Sentences, and the Laws of Grammar .........................................82 What is a Meme?.....................................................................................................85 Manufacturing Reality: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Control
the Behavior of Information Patterns .................................................................86 Memes: Self-Replicating Information Patterns.......................................................87 Distinction Meme ....................................................................................................87 Presuppositional Density .........................................................................................90 Cognitive Confusion ................................................................................................91 Strategy Memes .......................................................................................................92 Association Memes..................................................................................................93 Designer Information Viruses..................................................................................95 Incorporation............................................................................................................97 Why We Incorporate Information (News of Difference)......................................100 Habituation and Long-Term Potentiation..............................................................104 Replication (Reproduction) ...................................................................................105 Transmittability......................................................................................................106 Cleaving and Recombination ................................................................................106 Meme Systems and Meme Complexes .................................................................107 The Behavior of Information and Clues about Mind and Culture.......................108 Symbiotic vs. Parasitic Memes .............................................................................108 Bad News and the Behavior of Information.........................................................109 Why We Incorporate Parasitic Information Patterns ............................................111 Constructing a Model of the World — Incorporating the Mind of Nature .........112 References..............................................................................................................113
When the expanding universe cooled and the coalescing of an electron and a proton resulted in the formation of hydrogen, nature had spoken her first word in the language of pattern. As the universe continued to expand and cool, the conversion of energy into matter provided nature with a continuous flow of four-dimensional ink with which to record her expanding vocabulary. With this, her first 92-word vocabulary (i.e., the 92 stable elements) evolved into the language of pattern. Like
