On Monday, January 30, 1995 7:12:53 AM UTC+2, Andrea Chen wrote:   
   > One of the Chenian trolls (which like many Chenian trolls contains   
   > at least a fragment of serious thought) is to create an I-net   
   > group mind or more accurately to make our group behaviors (which   
   > are so often predictable) "conscious".   
   >   
   > In this context "consciousness" means watching and understanding   
   > behaviors,  the interactions in threads and building useful models   
   > (with some predictive capacity) of what is going on.  I have touched   
   > on this theme in many posts and am too hurried to go into detail, but   
   > successful communication requires some redundany so I repeating a   
   > small fragment of previous essays.   
   >   
   > Bead theory, buttons, McGowan "nodes" and memes are all terms used   
   > to help us dileneate this process as the behavior of somewhat measurable   
   > symbols (we can (especially with the help of pattern finding programs)   
   > observe the occurence of specific symbols).  It is my belief that by   
   > articulating such behavior we can alter it (hopefully in productive   
   > ways) just as knowlege of the "troll" has significantly (in the last   
   > year) reduced the noise created by such "meme beings".   
   >   
   > This post has been written to help new readers (within the last   
   > two weeks) to this group understand that something serious and   
   > important is going on and that many apparently disassocatiated   
   > fragments are part of a larger purpose.  One should note that this   
   > group is producing at several levels.  This is a "meta level" which   
   > explains the reason for many posts which are part of the "glass bead   
   > game" the the neu neu topian revolution is inflicting on I-net.  There   
   > is far more order than one might think and also far less.   
   >   
   >             -ac-   
   >   
   > p.s.  This post is consistent with the Chenian tradition of making all   
   > conspiracies (trolls) public with the confident certainty that people   
   > will fall for them anyway.   
      
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