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Message Subject Is information alive? Memetics, show that information replicates, evolves and mutates.
Poster Handle waterlily
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I believe that information, whether you call it memes, themes, fads, whatever is somewhat of a life form, and intelligent.

Also, there is information, messages, that are "dumped on" populations that influences those susceptible to think or act in certain ways, I believe.

A strange thing happened to me several years ago, and later I met another woman who had exactly the same experience:

I woke up in the middle of the night, I had been dreaming. My thoughts were flooded with the name "Barack Obama", like leaves falling from the trees in the fall. Somehow I knew it was a name. I thought "Who the hell is this Barack Obama?" It was rather irritating. Then later I heard the name again when he became a presidential candidate.

This is not a normal thing for me, I do not "hear voices" or anything like that.

Where did this information come from? It obviously was not something meant just for me, as at least one other person experienced that same thing. Different city too, hundreds of miles away.
 Quoting: waterlily


I saw him on a FOX news channel commercial before he ran for president and I told people on the forum I frequented then that he was going to be the next president (never saw or heard of him before in my life). He was also interviewed by Oprah before he ran (I think it was before) and she suggested he be president too. He started circulating as a presidential meme before he even ran.
 Quoting: nah


That is very interesting. I don't watch television, so I was not aware of that.

So maybe these memes enter the culture like a dog walking into a crowded room from outside. But where is outside?
Who opens the door to them?
 Quoting: waterlily


The marketers of social engineering.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43647980


I don't think anyone would argue with that, but we are talking about things that are beyond the scope of marketing.
 
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