Devachan Music - Mark Simos

The idea of ideas as living beings became fashionable in the aftermath of Richard Dawkins' notion of "memes"; in fact, this particular idea, the meme of memes, has spawned a whole pseudo-science, memetics, that applies the metaphor of viruses to ideas. The image is that ideas propagate from human host to host exactly as if they were living beings attending to their own survival (like most viruses, sometimes at the expense of the hosts themselves). To me, this casts the idea of living thoughts in somewhat harsh light. I prefer to treat ideas, at least those ideas worth having, as honored guests I have invited to the home of my thoughts to visit with me awhile, guests to be treated with respect and hospitality. (Hopefully, guests that won't overstay their welcome.)

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