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Some loose thoughts about memes: Art throughout history has often found itself propagate through mimesis, through mimicry. Art and expression often are presented through re-presentation of reality, some experience, or some state of what we experience, or that we see or feel - a representative reality
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July
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In some ways, we represent these different realities often subjectively, through our experiences, but often it turns out that these subjective trials and tribulations that we go through, share through art or music or otherwise are universal, and there is some universality to them Memes as a reduced version of this
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July
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Memes are like sauce, reduced - in the sense that they have as many path ways as possible to carry different experiences that we may have. A shared symbol, an expression, some experience, or situation that we might encounter. Through this vehicle we put our experience in this container, like a box in the trunk of a car
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So I feel like memes are valuable in the sense that they are shared experiences of our reality, that we can describe to each other, and point to each other in a way that we can agree at what that shared reality in fact is. In that sense, the value of memes is that it is a vehicle to communicate those shared realities
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A thought: the growth of memes is tied to Moore's Law - the more computational power we have, the more memes we can make. Increase in bandwidth + computational power is what has led us to be able to share more bytes of data, quicker - like the Amps & Voltage are both increasing - means we can share more and faster
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