The subject of Memes for me first came up as a kid watching a short doc on the sci Fi channelAnd it scared the shit out of me. From later on going on the Internet and encountering this term led me to understand it as an alternative word for injoke and collective reference. I've noticed more here than in other Internet realms the meme is treated with often a bit more regular creative use than used as an image with a black border and words. I suppose that's a b3ta idiocyncracy to avoid a toap. And is that a meme too?
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Christian's Bolt and Ski,
Mon 7 Feb 2011, 9:24,
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Also this Susan blackmore sounds like one of the talking headsIf it was the same lady she seemed to imply they had some independent existence from people, partly why that freaked me out. Which to be honest seemed a bit odd. Wouldn't it be cart before the horse?
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Mon 7 Feb 2011, 10:43,
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This is the whole point of memes, in the original sense as a parallel for genesGenes want to ensure their own survival and can be good or bad for the organism; memes, likewise, are replicating units of ideas. Most of them are just ordinary ideas which we discuss, but some of them evade rationality and have means of going uncriticised. We should hunt those ones down and kill them with fire.
I don't think this applies to any internet memes, or memes in the sense of fun things to repeat.
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Mon 7 Feb 2011, 11:35,
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I don't think this applies to any internet memes, or memes in the sense of fun things to repeat.