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- 9-4b2b0 Memes are subject to conscious variation and selection, and can be rejected intentionally, whereas genes are random and can’t be rejected.
- 9-4b2b1 We are free because we can create knowledge, and knowledge is unpredictable
- 9-4b2c You can host multiple memes both consequentially or simultaneously during your lifetime. A gene in contrast can be hosted only once per life-cycle.
9-2a3b Don’t pick up anything which has certain downside. Avoid bullshit.
10-2f3a2 There can only be enough overlap of meanings between any entities (e.g., individual, group, society, theory, reality) — ‘ゆらぎ’
Memes are subject to conscious variation (to be more precise, memes are to vary because two minds can never have the same problem-situation - we vary memes consciously but also unconsciously - or more precisely, we can’t help varying those memes - this is what it means to have the ability to guess and create meanings) and selection, and can be rejected intentionally, whereas genes are random and can’t be rejected (“No Design Law”).
10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.
An individual can assume the role of universal explainer with memes, not with genes.
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1-2f1b3a1 The question is not whether anomalies happened in the past, but whether we have explanations for such anomalies.