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<p>Chinese science moves ahead in the development of the ideal
society. </p>
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<p>I don't mean to be flip in my question, but have to ask if you
are being flip in this statement? Can you say more about what you
think the Chinese gov't/people/culture might be "trying" to do,
either overtly, or implicitly by simply following their individual
goals/interests/desires? <br>
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<p>I believe that the collective dynamics between Nations/Peoples
are what is dominating the movement/evolution of humanity
(cultural, not genetic) and that it is like an N-body problem in
complexity and subtlety but is effected primarily through network
relations. <br>
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<p>Like Gene Expression Networks, I believe that the more important
"memes" (I think this is a useful but risky metaphorical binding
that Dawkins coined for us most of a career (for me) ago) are
those that are _regulatory_ which is why the likes of Trump and
Bannon and Stone and the whole cabal of supervillians we are
coping with these days focus on things like "fake news!" and "big
lie!", etc. In the spirit of McLuhan, "the medium IS the
message", the medium itself becomes the _thing to manipulate_ like
trying to disrupt the news credibility and the election process as
well as becoming the definition of a tweetHole, and using Facebook
to disseminate dysInfo etc.</p>
<p>I know this is an acute threadbend, you were trying to talk about
birds and flocking and experimental techniques for studying
same... if you do feel inclined to answer, it is probably best to
rethread.</p>
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<p>If the robo-pigeon is a dominant member of the flock, you can
make the flock do loop-di-loops by commanding the robo-pigeon
to loop. If subordinate, the loop-di-looping behavior of the
robopigeon has no effect on the flock. A robo-pigeon is one
with a brain implant and pigeons are operated on AFTER their
dominance in the flock has been determined. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I hope I have this all right. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Nick <o:p></o:p></p>
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