Wow it's an amazing post. It resonates so much for me. I love how ideas bring forth other ideas.
The part about night sky took me back to one night in the Sahara desert in Morocco with the milky way spread all across the sky, and indeed it was one of the most beautiful thing I ever saw. To think that that was the night sky for our ancestors makes me jealous.
Thank you for expressing so many feeling that I have in such beautiful words
Wow. Your sense of Inception is another very interesting angle on something I'm working on. Yes to idea of meme transfer, but I want to know where do they come from and why do some memes take such hold while others wither on the vine, as it were.
My theory is there's actual a focused location for this stuff, and it's actually a kind of reality. It is around us, and in us, and is populated by ideas, emotions, memories, desires, and other forces which move us around according to their own agendas. I'm calling it the Haunted Abyss for now, and I'm posting fragments about it on here as they emerge.
Woah! I love your perspective too! And thank you for the thought-provoking comment. I feel excited you are onto something. For your question, just from online research.
"Like genes, memes are selfish replicators and have causal efficacy; in other words, their properties influence their chances of being copied and passed on. Some succeed because they are valuable or useful to their human hosts while others are more like viruses.
Just as genes can work together to form co-adapted gene complexes, so groups of memes acting together form co-adapted meme complexes or memeplexes. Memeplexes include (among many other things) languages, traditions, scientific theories, financial institutions, and religions. Dawkins famously referred to religions as "viruses of the mind.""
Dennett, Daniel Clement; Dahlbom, Bo (1993). Dennett and his critics: demystifying mind. Philosophers and their critics. Oxford (GB) Cambridge (Mass.): Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-18549-9.
Thanks for that - I didn't know Dennett had been into this too. So from this, he and Dawkins see memes as free-floating, independent entities. It's a pity they don't go into the specific mechanics of how they work, what do they want beyond survival and replication, what feeds them, what kills them off (because surely we can see that happening over time?)
Yes, this whole area is very exciting, and I don't know where it will lead. At the moment it's at the stage of me trying to wrestle fast-changing mental clouds of ideas to work out what's really going, so I'm sure I'll go down some blind alleys, but I'm convinced there's something valuable and helpful here.
I loved this piece and the poem with it. What beautiful musings on life and philosophy and the quantum.
Wow, thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, Amy! It means a lot to me <3
Wow it's an amazing post. It resonates so much for me. I love how ideas bring forth other ideas.
The part about night sky took me back to one night in the Sahara desert in Morocco with the milky way spread all across the sky, and indeed it was one of the most beautiful thing I ever saw. To think that that was the night sky for our ancestors makes me jealous.
Thank you for expressing so many feeling that I have in such beautiful words
wow, thank you so much! it means a lot to me
Wow. Your sense of Inception is another very interesting angle on something I'm working on. Yes to idea of meme transfer, but I want to know where do they come from and why do some memes take such hold while others wither on the vine, as it were.
My theory is there's actual a focused location for this stuff, and it's actually a kind of reality. It is around us, and in us, and is populated by ideas, emotions, memories, desires, and other forces which move us around according to their own agendas. I'm calling it the Haunted Abyss for now, and I'm posting fragments about it on here as they emerge.
Woah! I love your perspective too! And thank you for the thought-provoking comment. I feel excited you are onto something. For your question, just from online research.
"Like genes, memes are selfish replicators and have causal efficacy; in other words, their properties influence their chances of being copied and passed on. Some succeed because they are valuable or useful to their human hosts while others are more like viruses.
Just as genes can work together to form co-adapted gene complexes, so groups of memes acting together form co-adapted meme complexes or memeplexes. Memeplexes include (among many other things) languages, traditions, scientific theories, financial institutions, and religions. Dawkins famously referred to religions as "viruses of the mind.""
Dennett, Daniel Clement; Dahlbom, Bo (1993). Dennett and his critics: demystifying mind. Philosophers and their critics. Oxford (GB) Cambridge (Mass.): Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-18549-9.
Thanks for that - I didn't know Dennett had been into this too. So from this, he and Dawkins see memes as free-floating, independent entities. It's a pity they don't go into the specific mechanics of how they work, what do they want beyond survival and replication, what feeds them, what kills them off (because surely we can see that happening over time?)
Yes, this whole area is very exciting, and I don't know where it will lead. At the moment it's at the stage of me trying to wrestle fast-changing mental clouds of ideas to work out what's really going, so I'm sure I'll go down some blind alleys, but I'm convinced there's something valuable and helpful here.