BLOG JOURNAL ENTRY 3

Consider the meme (the idea as replicator/virus). Do you agree with Daniel Denett’s notion of the meme in his TED talk? What are the implications of thinking of ideas in these terms? Consider Susan Blackmore’s extension of the meme—the teme, in your reflections in your blog. What happens if you “extend” (in a McLuhanesque fashion) this idea to its logical extreme?


Memes? Ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus? But why using such a strong word like virus to describe memes, is it because the way of how it spread? The definition of virus in science term is…an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope…ba ba ba~
In other word, they are saying memes are bad for us.

Yes, I do agree on Daniel Dennett’s notion of the meme to a certain point, its stuff with attitude. But is meme just bad for us? Or is it a human mistake to judge them too early/lightly? What I about to say is meme stand at neutral position, it could be involving with us and is also not a concern to us. As we all know, meme is something not science can talk about. But do you realize that there is also very famous meme that could bring one to heaven or hell? When we young, we been introduce to this famous word from our parent and it had been spread throughout the world. Most of the human could have experience it before and even you could know better than me about this meme. And Yes this special meme is non other than what we already know, that could be pronounce in word as “Love”.

Love, just another few of the meme for us to die for. It do control us like a parasite, many of us had already been damage by it but it still an important factor for us human to survive in this world. From Susan Blackmore TED talk about meme let me realize that there are certain type of meme does involve with human and I do believe Love is just another meme that depend on human so they can keep on replicate themselves and continue throughout the century. If without this special meme, there will not be any sex category involve and thus human are bound to be extinct from earth. Some of us believe with love, one could wake up from their nightmare or crisis and some do believe with love, one could sacrifice themselves to save their family and love one. With love, human can push themselves to the limit and bring impossible to possible. So is love such a bad thing to us? Yes there have been too many of us die because of love but that suicide is not just love responsibility, not just the person responsibility but is all of us responsibility. We human are the selfish one, we blame on others but not us, could be involve with other type of meme but that what make us human, without them we are like vegetable, waiting for miracle to happen.

So what I had already told you is meme not just a virus, but is also the heart for us, like what Daniel Dennett say in TED video on HIV virus, don’t run away from it but to deal with it, learn to live harmony with it and nothing could go wrong.