And as with memes, these dream contents often seem arbitrary and pointless Dream ideas, like memes, are widely shared, with the same kinds of dream cropping up in widely different communities and cultures. I want to distinguish the meme from two other sorts of idea that areįirst, dreams. Some people take it to provide a general theory of human culture and idea transmission. The concept of the meme can be taken more or less widely. (Here I have paraphrased a concept originatedīy Richard Dawkins, who coined the term “meme.”)
That annoying jingle in your head is a meme playing with your brain chemistry. They work like a drug: They trigger reactions in our brains that take over our minds. Once inside they can vary from mild mental nuisance to dangerous ideology. Memes are like computer viruses - they trade on the architecture of the system to insert themselves into the software. Thus ideas (in a broad sense) exist in many minds because they are memes: They have arrived there from somewhere else by means of meme transfer. Selection, sometimes proliferating wildly, before possibly going extinct. Memes may also mutate and be subject to natural People just can’t help picking stuff up, willy-nilly. Of the human mind to new information and influence, forged in childhood. They spread by imitation and natural credulity, exploiting the receptivity In modern life, we are immersed in memes - jingles, catchphrases, fads, fashions, crazes, religions, ideologies, mannerisms and accents.
Once inside our heads, memes can vary from mild mental nuisance to dangerous ideology.
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