Consider how similar the replication of a strand of DNA is to the
replication of a meme or idea. Let us examine the replication of
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ Mentifex AI a theory of brain-mind.
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ ________ semantic / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory |episodic memory|
| | recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | |flush-vector | _______ | |
| /image \ | __|__ / \ _______ | /stored \ | |
| / percept \ | / \/ \/ Verbs \------|->/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/ Nouns \ \_______/ | \ of words/ |
| \_______/ | \_______/-------------------|-->\_______/ |
The initial cell of a human being replicates itself completely to
several powers of two before any differentiation occurs among the
daughter cells. Likewise, the Mentifex AI Meme infects thousands
of febrile minds as a monolithic, often unwelcome germ of an idea.
In the human zygote not all proteins can be expressed immediately
and likewise the Mentifex Mind-Model can not be understood (meme-
replication) as an all-at-once whole. Instead, Nature in the one
case and a good school of Computer Science in the other case will
choose a starting-point so that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
and so that students of the mind will see how Mentificium evolved.
Nature shows that most genes are useless detritus, as is Mentifex.
A few chosen genes build "deinon ti ho anthropos" and a few ideas
http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ will create a Machina Intelligens.
