mind2mind
by rantywoman
Great minds, readers, great minds…
https://thebitterbabe.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/meme-transmission/
http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/
What I expect to happen is that my body will fail, my mind will cease to function and that will be that. My genes will not live on, because I have had no children. I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes.
I just read the link to the Roger Ebert article – it was really nice, for the most part (his views on kindness, etc) I agree with him, although the whole “fear of death” thing is where we split paths…in that regard I have way more in common with the Master of panic and anxiety….