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> This [meditation] is about finding new patterns in information previously
> received. Developing theory, in other words, not collecting observations.
Creating free space - the maximum area to unpack semi-processed thoughts
and allow them to interact, merging with generic archetypes,
recombining, competing to fit dynamic niches. This is where a meme
theory has real explanatory power to deploy so I'll come back to a
question I tried to raise a while ago:
How many people consider memes to stop at the level of a communicable
disease, and how many think (like me) that everything (literally, apart
from mid/lower brain stuff) that is you is memetic[1] in some sense -
that everything about a mind is memes in the same way that the world (we
see) is more or less organisms (plus some rock, water and soil and
stuff).
[1] I use the term differently (to some) because I don't *require*
interpersonal transfer to define a meme, I like to think of it more as a
word like 'organism'.
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