Memespace

The memespace is an abstract cultural container populated by memes.

Memes are similar to genes and viruses in that they tend to propagate, evolve, corrupt and mutate. All these actions take place in the memespace. As a direct result, the memespace is considered volatile and prone to errors and corruption without rigorous error correction.

Memetic engineering, marketing, advertising, brainwashing, disinformation, doctrine, evangelism, indoctrination, education, groupthink, promotion, propaganda, publicity, and other forms of cultural mutation develop in the memespace.

The concept of the memespace requires a belief that the mind – and the collective mind, culture – is programmable. Memespace is adapted from namespace and assumes that human culture is programmable. In programming parlance, the memesphere is defined as cultural standard input while the memespace is defined as the cultural namespace.

External links

* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0096.html "Global Cyberspace and Personal Memespace"] – article by Bruce Damer