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Come on, we're getting too philosophical. Viruses have genes, internet memes are just ideas.
by ASalazarMX 7y ago
Come on, we're getting too philosophical. Viruses have genes, internet memes are just ideas.
- mcv 7y agoDo you know where the word meme comes from?
- ASalazarMX 7y agoOf course, and that reinforces their status of imaginary genes.
- al3xandre 7y agoWhat difference is there between information stored as proteins in a chains or as bytes on hard drive / neuron configuration in your brain. We just got used to the DNA=life, but is this a valid assumption? Some exotic lifeforms could encode their self-defining information on silicium magnetic polarisation, electron spin or whatever. And you would call them life if they were standing and moving in an animal-like way.