gene – meme – meme – gene
Richard
Dawkins “All life evolves by the
differential survival of replicating entities.”
memes appall him apparently a lot of
people have time to waste
he appreciates genes their biological incantation although steadfastlyrefuses its societal
mememememe emphasising the sayer as
they direct attention to themselves naturally human nature the meme they express is all about themMe a
competition for attention
Cry wolf
possibly Aesops lesson
wasnt learned
Daniel Dennett Take it away Mr Dennett
makes an example of meme
“. . . ants climbing to the top of blades of grass, staying there, from which
exposed position they are frequently devoured by grazing animals.
“It is impossible to account for this
behaviour until it is realised that the beneficiary is not the ant and her
genes but a tiny creature called a lancet fluke which has taken over the brain
of the ant and compelled it to follow this course of action. It is part of the
lancet fluke’s reproductive cycle to be eaten by a sheep or cow, and hitching a
ride inside the ant is an excellent way to achieve this. Viruses also utilise
the behaviour of their hosts. They enter an organism and use the body’s
responses to their presence, such as sneezing or excreting, to facilitate their
passage to further unwilling hosts.
“There are numerous other examples where
one organism utilises or manipulates the behaviour of another to further its
own genetic agenda; often at the expense of the other.
“The lancet fluke, the virus, or any
other organism furthering the spread of its own genes, has no malign intentions
towards their hosts or, in fact, any intentions at all. What is being seen is a
process that has evolved through natural selection and favours the genes of
lancet fluke or virus, or whatever.”
to be or not to be a lancet fluke
to be or not to be a parasite
or struggling to be generous What
about mememememe or riding a bike Look at mememememe Maw No hands
You have to be so cynical?
I do
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https://richarddawkins.net/2014/02/whats-in-a-meme/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-defines-a-meme-1904778/
https://philosophybreak.com/articles/do-neurons-push-thoughts-around-or-do-thoughts-push-neurons-around/
“The American neurophysiologist Roger
Sperry had put forward a similar notion several years earlier, arguing that
ideas are ‘just as real’ as the neurons they inhabit. Ideas have power, he
said:
“Ideas cause
ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other
mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global
communication, in far distant, foreign brains. And they also interact with the
external surroundings to produce in toto a burstwise advance in evolution that
is far beyond anything to hit the evolutionary scene yet.
“Memes genes
propagate themselves in the meme gene pool
by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be
called imitation. They
compete most of all for attention.”
