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Lets try and apply to doomfile approaches to thinking about
technical shit... look for neat research ideas.
((Keep this stuff buried deep where most people will
never be bothered by it.)) 
        
Here's a wonky idea: 
If there are general characteristics        (Some people are calling
of replicators, general principles           ideas like this "Bionomics".
that apply to ecologies, economys,           The claim that this is a new
systems of ideas... then how about           field strikes me as a bit 
crystal growth?                              self-aggrandizing...)
                                                
Analogy, genes => memes => Crystenes               (incidentally:  
                                                    what's the economic
   What is a Crystene?  The smallest possible       analogy?) 
   seed crystal to produce a given structure? 
                                              
   The old Scientific American article on Xtal Growth
   Implies that a way you can get *long* repeat distances
   in crystals (e.g. greater than 5 n-n interactions) is 
   through the pattern of defects that just happened 
   to be on the surface of the seed.   
                                      
   Prof Tiller talks about this kind of thing
   arising from the "long range stress tensor"
   but I believe he's openminded about other 
   possibilities.                     
                                      
                                      
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