#history of ideas
Concepts exploring "history of ideas"
Memes as Cultural Compression
A meme is a compression artifact for a piece of shared social experience. Its virality is not a property of its content — it is a function of the zeitgeist it spawns into. The Tamarians on *Star Trek: TNG* spoke entirely in memes, and called it mythology. We do the same thing and call it the internet.
🌱 seedlingContinuity of the Recognition
The recognition that a person is composed — not located — keeps recurring across eras under different names. The schema changes with the substrate of the era; the underlying claim does not. The current debate over AI consciousness is one more turn of a wheel that has been turning for at least 123 years.
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