THE NEW MEMETICS

Think of your favorite meme. I'll wait. Got it yet? Good, because I've got news for you: IT'S NOT A MEME!
Memes are NOT pictures with words on them, lulzarandem sayings, or videos about rainbows, unicorns, and crying black people.
Memes are the DNA of your mind. NOT your brain! your MIND. Your memes dictate how your mind will receive and interpret sense data. They basically are the reason you see the world the way you do and act the way you do. They give you your personality and individuality. No two people who ever lived have had the same set of memes.

Let me try to explain it this way.
When your mind receives sense data, that little ball of information slams into your mindspace and dents it a little. Those dents affect how you will receive other balls of information in the future, where they will bounce and what other balls they'll bump into. The dents are the memes. The information itself is not a meme, and the thing the information came from is not a meme.

These are the three major ways your mind can receive new memes.

1. Transformation
This is when the mind receives memes from the environment. This process not mediated or facilitated by another mind. Transformation would have been the way Adam and Eve received memes. In layman's terms, you might call it discovery.

2. Conjugation
This is when one mind stuffs memes into another mind. Sometimes it takes a lot of violent, repetitive mind motion, and sometimes it's over much too quickly. One might call it "mind sex." Did you know that you've had mind sex with your parents? Lots of mind sex! You also had mind sex with every one of your schoolteachers on every school day! If you paid attention in class, that is. Kids these days, their minds are terribly oversexed. You also had mind sex with the author of the last book you read, and your workplace trainer, and lots of other people in your family probably... You're quite a mindslut, you know. You're having mind sex with me right now. nudge wink ;)

3. Transduction
This is the spread of memes via a vector. Transduction is characterized by rapid spreading. Vectors are pretty much always man-made. Examples of vectors include all those things I mentioned that are NOT MEMES. Memes carried by vectors share the characteristics of being easily accessible and having no value to the mind other than that of amusement.

Some interesting questions to think about
* Are babies born with memes?
* there were some other ones but I forgot