Sunday, January 25, 2009

more about memes

susan blackmore's talk on memes. she wants to turn your mind inside out.she does.
the basic theory is that memes propogate themselves. humans are their symbiotic partners/hosts/vectors. so is all technology. e.g, the printing press came about to store memes. its success made people create more and more of them. and more . and means to get the output of these across. hence roads and trains and then planes etc etc.

listen

I was fairly groping in the dark and horribly off-topic in my previous post about 'meditation as meme weeding'.
What I wanted to say was that zen meditation seeks to eradicate memes.
Considering that memes are defined as 'that which is copied', and that these create and sustain human colonies for their maintenance and transfer, humans seeking enlightenment would appear to our meme-lords something akin to our computers seeking
to be free of computing.
welcome to the matrix it is, then

ps: do memes cash in on human beings' weakness for habit ? if yes, it means that : things we do things without thinking , we have a tendency to do them more .
If this is true, is it possible for meditation to help re-awaken perception so that we see things as if for the first time (beginner's mind) and hence have no habits ?

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