No.55667
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Excerpts from “The Empires of the Mind” and $ Memetics is the study of memes, but a meme is not just any idea, though; memes are ideas that behave as life.
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No.55668
>>55667
The word meme is a contraction of mind gene, a concept developed by Richard Dawkins to describe ideas will to exist, grow and propagate in a very similar way that life does. The concept of memetics is founded on the realization that since the word meme is itself an idea, it is descriptive of itself.
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No.55669
>>55668
It is a self-reflexive idea, and from that concept we can derive the meme meme. The meme meme is a self-aware meme, just as humans are self-aware; the meme meme is then a tool for humans to achieve a higher level of consciousness about themselves, as their identity is composed of ideas and so our self-identity is a personal meme.
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No.55670
>>55669
A meme is then not just any idea or word, but a self-reflexive idea, ideas that describe themselves. Most ideas exist analogously to bacteria, they are self-contained by that which they are ideas about. There are passive and conscious memes, most are passive, but some are quite aware that they describe themselves.
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No.55671
>>55670
>>55670
Some of these are very dangerous as they deny that they are ideas of themselves, but instead claim they are ideas which are more important as abstractions than as definitions of which they are abstractions of; these memes are viruses which can only exist within in the human mind. They tend to care more about propagating themselves than the survival of the minds which they exist in as they are intentionally divorced completely from the physical world and so regard the physical world as inconsequential.
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No.55672
>>55671
However, we should care because we exist in the physical world and so we must be careful of the ideas we allow to live in our minds. Since the meme meme is self-reflexive itself, it can be used to diagnose other self reflexive ideas. The difference is that where the meme meme is an abstraction of ideas which are abstractions of what they define, and is about understanding how these abstraction operate, other self-reflexive ideas are abstractions of abstractions which reject the importance of that which the abstractions are of, only defining the abstractions themselves.
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No.55673
>>55672
The meme meme is only a meme itself, it is a definition representing a concept. In order to utilize the meme meme a system must be utilized which bases its structure on the concept of the meme meme. This is where Memetics comes in.
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No.55721
In general, I think that memes are a great concept in the era of information technology and in particular in the digital age. This is a very simple replicated and distributed type of information and I realized this when I was working on printing for this company https://www.altvark.com/vistaprint-alternatives/ Back in the 90s, they understood many things that later became ubiquitous in urban culture. And it helped them a lot in their success.
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