From there, the conversation took a surrealist twist, when Kenyatta Cheese introduced Toxoplasmosis - a disease affecting pregnant women, contracted through cat droppings - as a metaphor for memes. The panel debated the possibility that much like we often see in the animal kingdom, “viral” content has a mind of its own, so to speak, and bends the behavior of internet-users to its will. Put more realistically, the panel raised interesting questions about whether cultural memes affect our behavior - how much control we have over content, and how much control it exerts over us without our knowing.

How We Share Content And Why - Adrants

Actually, they’re being waaaaaaay too kind. I wasn’t suggesting toxoplasmosis as a metaphor for memes. I was suggesting that memes are an emergent form of life that use humans to propagate.

We always talk about this stuff with us (humans) at the center. Maybe we’re just nodes that happen to have a flicker of self awareness.

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Later, when someone writes a Matrix-esque film about how the sentient Internet actually created humanity so that it could exist, I want to see Kenyatta credited as an EP.

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