Genes [4] | Memes | Temes |
Propagation—Capacity for traits to spread. | Ideas are recorded, given as suggestions, marketed as rhetoric, etc. | Tagging/tracking cookies records users’ visits to a site. Another example is cataloging information that will be seen and shared. |
Fecundity—Information is successfully stored as DNA. | Ideas are accepted regardless of inquiry. Also, we aren’t wired to remember things accurately. | AI is currently not self-regulated, which is a current question in research. Nanotechnology is one advance in storage of information. |
Mutations are copied when DNA is copied. | Even when there is an error in the framework of thinking or behavior or ritual, the brain can still function. | If a code has an error, the algorithm is broken. |
Biological, self. | We have healthy and unhealthy ideas about ourselves, filtered via cognitive tools such as creativity and imagination which are memetic. | Digital selves allow us to alter what others see and manifest what we wish others could see, giving a new kind of self-esteem. |