For anyone taken with the idea of memes, the landscape was changing faster than Dawkins had imagined possible in 1976, when he wrote, “The computers in which memes live are human brains.” By 1989, the time of the second edition ofThe Selfish Gene, having become an adept programmer himsel...
An almost incomprehensible meme surfaced this week involving Olivia Dunne, a kid named Baby Gronk, the Drip King, and other things not chronically online human beings wouldn't understand. Our very online brains have got you covered.
Again, aesthetics is informed by ideology for the end of affecting attitudes, as noted by Grieser with regards to Blue Brains in neuroscience. The widespread use of the AI Creation Meme in allegedly secular spaces also brings us to the arguments and ideas of the New Visibility of Religion and...