AWESOME, so glad i found this post / substack. I think you and i are in a similar space, but your knowledge of evolution and biology look much more complex that mine.
Here's some thoughts i've had in the space:
- do you think memes exhibit r/k selection dichotomies?
what do you think of the notion of a 'memetic superorganism' ?
or, say, 'memetic innoculuation', where being exposed to a shitty copy of a complex idea can 'innoculate' a thinker against the complex idea, by making them consider the complex idea as being not worth investigating, by comparison to the simple one?
sorry these thoughts are all disconnected / rambly - i'm a parent too and this is how i spend my time off duty - hah
AWESOME, so glad i found this post / substack. I think you and i are in a similar space, but your knowledge of evolution and biology look much more complex that mine.
Here's some thoughts i've had in the space:
- do you think memes exhibit r/k selection dichotomies?
- https://apxhard.com/2021/03/17/are-you-hosting-a-mimetic-parasite/ - suggests that memetic parasites exist
what do you think of the notion of a 'memetic superorganism' ?
or, say, 'memetic innoculuation', where being exposed to a shitty copy of a complex idea can 'innoculate' a thinker against the complex idea, by making them consider the complex idea as being not worth investigating, by comparison to the simple one?
sorry these thoughts are all disconnected / rambly - i'm a parent too and this is how i spend my time off duty - hah