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A chat on 4chan
human
Memes are the brain software program that turns you in to a sterile slave for the meme, for the replication of the idea rather than the replication of yourself as was the original function of the learned behavior.

Memes are and will for ever be parasitic. There is an asymmetric relationship between your phenotype and the uninherited (memetic) idea. Ideas were meant to be inherited, that way they evolved with the phenotype,
They became dependent on the phenotype and could never evolve in a way that would make the phenotype less fertile lest it perish with the phenotype.
Memes are no longer bound to the phenotype, in a sense they have gone from being phenotypic machines in to being viruses.
Like a virus only needs the human cell to copy itself, the meme only needs a human minds ability to relay information to copy itself.
gpt
The meme does not necessarily need the very specific phenotype that hosts it to survive, and therefore is allowed to evolve in ways that would be un-beneficial to its host.
And because it is allowed to, means that it WILL evolve in such a way. Like viruses, the phenotype is a handicap to these replicators,
and this handicap is what make the otherwise selfish replicators that lives inside you, seem friendly and cooperative. But if they are allowed to, they absolutely will abuse your friendship to do you harm.
What's worse is that because everything up until merely one generation ago has been helpful to your phenotype, you have developed such a trust of these ideas, that you will allow them to subtly change your motivation on a subconscious level,
and you will want to serve the replication of the meme rather than the other way around as was the ideas original function as an inherited idea.
human
There are many people, Richard Dawkins included, who lives for the meme, and not the other way around, who will live to serve the replication of the meme,
and not the other way around, who thinks the idea of them, their name, is more important than their host.
But the idea cannot exist without its host, and like the tower of babel, we might come over a great ultimatum, loose our ability to relay information, (the confusion of tongues) or perish with the idea.
Richard would write about the contemporary computer virus epidemic of the 90's as the meme, but these lines of code are not memes, nor are they really viruses.
Richard would also do the great mistake of thinking of religion as a virus, this is the greatest undoing Richard did in his life. Religion is the only non-memetic idea left on this earth, they are the original idea, the inherited idea.
gpt
Religion has manifested itself as the human equivalent of animal instinct. Because instinct takes such a long time to develop, they are insufficient to supply humans with the necessary tools to predict and behave according to its environment relative to the learned behavior.
Human language began once a son mimicked his dads behavior, from there everything evolved and since learning is a faster way of replicating than genetic generations, human instinct would take this in to account and make way for our motives to be taught.
However, this opened the door to dangerous ideas, you can teach someone to kill themselves. And the ideas that ends up killing someone may appear innocent. Something happened 2000 years ago, christianity opened up as one of the first religions to not be exclusively inherited.
This in the short term made it quite brazenly imperialistic, in that it sought to force its implementation through warfare. But today there is a simpler and frankly quite more sinister way of enforcing ideas upon others, called the internet.
This is no better than the imperialistic meme, which could be seen as the beta version of the un-inherited idea. The imperialistic meme would only incorporate its name in to the already existing inherited idea.
human
>Religion has manifested itself as the human equivalent of animal instinct. Because instinct takes such a long time to develop, they are insufficient to supply humans with the necessary tools to predict and behave according to its environment relative to the learned behavior.
is this somewhat related to the theories that hypothesize the existence of an ancient 'hearing voices in your head' ability due to lack of introspection?