Stigmergy (/ˈstɪɡmərdʒi/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English> STIG-mər-jee
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key> ) is a
mechanism of indirect coordination
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coordination> , through the environment,
between agents or actions.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy#cite_note-mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de-1>
The principle is that the trace left in the environment
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment> by an individual
action stimulates the performance of a succeeding action by the same or
different agent. Agents that respond to traces in the environment
receive positive fitness benefits, reinforcing the likelihood of these
behaviors becoming fixed within a population over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
Just sounds like another form of conspiracy as far as I am concerned. A
chain reaction of unfortunate events - domino effect - with someone
pushing over the first domino that causes all the other dominos to fall.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy>
Many of these things are technically not conspiracies, just stigmergy.
The US defeat in Afghanistan – after the longest war in US history,
20yrs+ - is one example. Congress, The White House, the mass media,
the Pentagon lie and deceive for decades and get away with it. The WSJ
claimed 6 intelligence reports about Afghanistan said nothing about the
whole thing collapsing.
And that harmful trend continues as no one seems to scream about an
ineffective US intelligence community. I also think the same thing will
happen with Russia/Ukraine and the sanctions Cold War.
All too often science goes the same way. Termites denying anomalies
such as Cold Fusion obediently.
From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:49 AM
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ROGER ANDERTON <r.j.ander...@btinternet.com
<mailto:r.j.ander...@btinternet.com> > wrote:
This is getting too diverted. What you were saying sounded like a
conspiracy theory.
Perhaps it did sound like that, but it was not. Because --
1. A conspiracy is organized and surreptitious. The opposition to cold
fusion was unorganized and very much in the open. Opponents published
books, papers, newspaper editorials, editorials in Nature and so on.
They were proud to lead the attack against cold fusion.
2. It is not a "theory;" it is a fact. You can read the books and
editorials. A "conspiracy theory" means an assertion that a hidden group
of people carried out an organized campaign of opposition. There is no
proof, and you don't know who the people are. Although you might
speculate about who they are. If I had said: "we don't know who opposed
cold fusion, but I suspect it was the editors at Nature and the plasma
fusion researchers" that would be a theory. I am not saying that. I am
saying: "we know who opposed cold fusion, because the editor at Nature
published signed editorials excoriating it, and the plasma fusion
researchers at MIT called Boston newspaper reporters and demanded that
Fleischmann and Pons be arrested for fraud." Those researchers never
denied doing that. We have the news reports and quotes from them.
There is a world of difference between an unsubstantiated conspiracy
theory and attacks carried out in public by people who bragged about
their role in destroying cold fusion. Calling that a "theory" is like
saying "perhaps it was the Japanese navy that attacked Pearl Harbor in
1941, but we will never know for sure."
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