the memetic host is not naturally present in humans; rather, it spreads through the implantation of the language meme onto our mental substrates by our parents and society, using the Chomsky grammar as a foundation. this then grants us the capability for linguistic reasoning
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RT @thesravaka
@leaacta @strnglft i maintain that if you have a linguistic inner monologue, you are possessed by the spirit of dead men.
https://twitter.com/thesravaka/status/1405590528717099015
this execution engine forms the basis of our memetic host & is how egregores take root in our minds, making us worker nodes; I call this process memetic hijacking, of which cordyception is a subclass. take care w/ the upkeep of your psychic immune system
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RT @pee_zombie
like any control system, a terminal state is undesirable & indicative of a feedback pathology
the memetic immune system seeks to maintain psychic homeostasis, ensur…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1370636620479741952
but not for free; any API can be abused, and language is an arbitrary code execution engine which allows others to craft and inject packets for us to evaluate, with the intention of manipulating our world models
this has downsides; see the fall of Babel
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RT @pee_zombie
formal constructive logical reasoning as a worldview is an artificial mindvirus created several times throughout history, but commonly attributed to Socrates et al
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https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1341162249491263488