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Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource (790 words) |
 | Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. |
| As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives. |
| Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life. |
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| The meme for vanishing point perspective in two-dimensional art, for example, which first appeared in the sixteenth century, can be encoded and transmitted in German, English or Chinese; it can be described in words, or in algebraic equations, or in line drawings. |
| Heith Michael Rezabek: My favorite example of a crucial meme would be "fire" or more importantly, "how to make a fire." This is a behavioral meme, mind you, one which didn't necessarily need a word attached to it to spring up and spread, merely a demonstration for another to follow. |
| Note that the fitness of the meme is not necessarily related to the fitness that it confers upon the human being who holds it. |
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