{"id":593,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:53:20","slug":"a-mental-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"A mental gene?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Some biologists assert that non-carbon-based life forms existed prior to carbon-based. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They are called &#8220;memes&#8221;. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A meme is any idea, concept, expression, image, skill, phrase, etc., that&#8217;s born out of <a href=\"?p=432\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">no-thing<\/span><\/a>. It can easily be transmitted from one human brain to another. Some variants spread more readily than others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Those human activities that have no obvious connection with reproduction or survival take on a whole new dimension when viewed in light of the concept of the meme (or mental gene).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The product of such a meme (a product arising from an artistic, literary or philosophical activity) may give its carrier an evolutionary advantage, if the society in which that individual lives places a certain value on this kind of product.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 253px; height: 187px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Fall%20II%20-%20smaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=594\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some biologists assert that non-carbon-based life forms existed prior to carbon-based. They are called &#8220;memes&#8221;. A meme is any idea, concept, expression, image, skill, phrase, etc., that&#8217;s born out of no-thing. It can easily be transmitted from one human brain to another. Some variants spread more readily than others. Those human activities that have no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9630,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/9630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}