I was talking to a friend of mine recently about memes, and their relative adaptivemness, or rather, how adaptive a meme might be to its host. What strikes me in particular are memeplexes for instructions like consumerism and the like. I take it for granted that memes can communicate on some level, and swap adaptive pieces of meme-code. I wonder what a conversation between two self aware memes would be like for us, as we are ontological prerequisites for their communication, but also party to the epiphenomena of memes. A meme trying to exaplin to other memes about what a meme’s purpose in life might be, and the god of the memes. If I may be so bold for a moment to think that a meme may conceive somehow of humans, (say someday that a human creates a submeme that allows the person to communicate with a submeme, which would doubtless be a difficult and labor intensive one-off) how this meme may try to communicate to other memes about this god of memes it received a message from.
Did Meme-god create us?
Um sort of, we are actually the thoughts and the words of god.
So god spoke and we came to be?
Well, a bit, you see we are sort of by-products of speech…
Why did god create us?
Well – in a broad sense to increase god’s utility, though that is a bit of an exaggeration…
Why do we memes suffer so much, living in constant battle and then perishing?
Well.. god doesn’t allow these things so much as these things are necessary for us memes to have utility for god.
on and on and on.
Not that this scans or maps exactly, but it has some interesting paralells with our own experiences.