Memes are idea-genes, and they evolve in a way that is abstractly analagous to the way genes evolve, which is by getting together and changing each other's meanings. Join Karl Erickson and other members of the Fluidiom community to discuss ways that virtual worlds can be used to model ideas in volumetric space, and to discuss how such idea modelability can be particularly conducive to the art and science of community. Memes are idea-genes, and they evolve in a way that is abstractly analagous to the way genes evolve, which is by getting together and changing each other's meanings. Fluidiom will be used for modeling complex ideas in volumetric space. Volumetric space is the space that we are all familiar with, so it is only appropriate that we model our ideas there, especially in a communal way like in a virtual world.
Memetic evolution is evolution by human natural selection.
The popular notion of meme-viruses refers to the repeated selection of ideas by large amounts of people for reasons that aren't necessarily related to the quality of the ideas. The selection may be so automatic that it becomes easy to say that the meme-viruses select the people instead of the other way around. The interesting memes, however, are those that are selected intentionally for their fit within significant contexts. This includes fitting solutions to problems, assets to needs, and answers to questions. What is important are the relationships between memes, which dictate their relative positions in a memetic tensegrity-network.