We know that genes change via copy error. We also know memes currently change via copy error OR human processing. But copy error is an effective contribution only in the presence of great fecundity, since most errors are fatal. Can memes transcend the need for a gene-based intelligence to alter them in non-fatal ways?
Our brains are the primordial soup in which the memes thrived. Will that soup create an alternative substrate for the memes? Nanobots? Giant networks? Intriguing notions.
The strange thing that by adopting the meme's eye view, it is disassociating from the brains hardware support for it. Susan Blackmores teme concept comes to mind.
But her teme may be just a technologically supported meme, not a completely new coder like the difference between a gene and a meme.
In a sense, a memeplexe could be generated and could evolve outside of us. They will have to get a physical support and be able to support, protect it and grow it.
This is a very interesting pov on the topic of memetics. Information dense, but a bit of 'Monty Python' in the delivery. I kinda like it. So...I subscribed. For some reason the Penrose/Hameroff model of consciousness came to mind, followed by Bostrom's "The Simulation Argument." There's a lot to think about, here. Well done.
We know that genes change via copy error. We also know memes currently change via copy error OR human processing. But copy error is an effective contribution only in the presence of great fecundity, since most errors are fatal. Can memes transcend the need for a gene-based intelligence to alter them in non-fatal ways?
Our brains are the primordial soup in which the memes thrived. Will that soup create an alternative substrate for the memes? Nanobots? Giant networks? Intriguing notions.
NeosimianSapiens 5 months ago
Thanks. But... enjoy what?!
AlgeKalipso 11 months ago
yar!
docbreaknik 1 year ago
it would be good to sample this dialogue tim?
docbreaknik 1 year ago
@docbreaknik It is in the public domain - but perhaps check with your YouTube T&Cs.
tmtyler 1 year ago
@tmtyler . whats 'YouTube T&Cs' tim?
docbreaknik 1 year ago
@docbreaknik The YouTube "Terms of Use" and "Community Guidelines".
tmtyler 1 year ago
@tmtyler but if your the fella who spoke it, surely they can swing?
docbreaknik 1 year ago
[mdma]
docbreaknik 1 year ago
You quite an interesting character, Mr. Tyler :P...what is your IQ?
TheLostBees 1 year ago
@TheLostBees Heh: my last two IQ tests were long ago - but I got 148 and 156.
tmtyler 5 months ago
For a simple popular article about the modern memetic takeover, web-search for "Synthetic Existence".
tmtyler 2 years ago
The strange thing that by adopting the meme's eye view, it is disassociating from the brains hardware support for it. Susan Blackmores teme concept comes to mind.
But her teme may be just a technologically supported meme, not a completely new coder like the difference between a gene and a meme.
In a sense, a memeplexe could be generated and could evolve outside of us. They will have to get a physical support and be able to support, protect it and grow it.
chiropra1 2 years ago
This is a very interesting pov on the topic of memetics. Information dense, but a bit of 'Monty Python' in the delivery. I kinda like it. So...I subscribed. For some reason the Penrose/Hameroff model of consciousness came to mind, followed by Bostrom's "The Simulation Argument." There's a lot to think about, here. Well done.
wrb1957 2 years ago
Very nice
Stirrethcharybdis 3 years ago
So were creating our own take over?
hord 3 years ago