What if we view a distinct "meme-entity" not as an organism, as with the egregore, but as a building, build upon the land of ideas?
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and just as we can make object boundary distinctions within a human (organ, cell, organelle, molecule) we can do so in the super-organism as well without losing the gestalt of it all. buildings are organs filled with people which are the cells of that organ.
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we have a conventional illusion that the control system of the human organism is the centralized egoic narrator self. this illusion is dispelled as soon as we acknowledge that most of what your body does is totally unconscious. you don't will yourself to beat your heart, etc.
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so what controls the process of an organism? what controls the process of the super-organism? these are the fundamental questions. and they can be applied memes as well! what are memes the cells of? what controls the memetic super-organism?
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we simply don't know. this is on the frontier of our understanding. is it possible, even in principle, to have an exact, quantified, predictive science of memetic processes? My intuition says yes but I wouldn't know where to begin honestly.
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