“1. What is the core component of memetic transmission? Is there one?
2. What is the smallest possible memetic unit? How short can the message be and still retain it’s potency?
3. Are memes an emergent property of cultural systems? In other words, we assume memes are bottom-up, human ==> culture, but why assume that when there’s just as much evidence that the opposite could be true?
4. To what extent is the meme associated with the host language? Are memes made of language, or does language exist to “carry” memes? Are English memes and Chinese memes functionally the same? “
Going to work on this more, but to me the core “thing” behind memetics is association. Wexology. Associative search engines, synchronicity, divination. How one thing connects to the next in the Great Chain of Being [Ariadne's Thread, Roseline], but also within the realm of human awareness, cognition, proprioception and perceptual sensation. Clustering of events in spacetime, attempts by rational mind to lay order, organization and meaning, causal relationships. Mimetics, flocking, mobbing, blogging, members of social animal units looking to one another for cues, clues, copying retransmitting down the line…
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That second image is amazing — what was the context for that?
No idea, I tend to collect these things and forget most of the sourcing