working lens
Memeplex optics
How collective structures of ideas and practices are built, live, and die. A map that serves as a lens for reading this book and, in time, other research.
The map is a living instrument. Each node holds one observation about how collective structures of ideas are built, live, and die. Click a node to open its contents on the right. The triangle on the left expands child nodes.
The play of consciousnessframe
Everything below is a move within a single game
The root — Fire and consciousnessroot
Arose together, in a single co-evolutionary loop
The memeplex as a living beingtrunk
An emergent life form arising out of ideas and substrates
Life cyclebranch
The full circle: from substrate incubation through life and five modes of death to a new incubation
Physiologybranch
Being-mass, two layers of the memeplex, the inverse relation of density and resilience, the capacitor
Defensive strategiesbranch
Four ways to survive for the persecuted + four stages of the immune response in the dominant
Mechanism of evolutionbranch
Variation, inheritance, selection, second-level replication
The memeplex from withinbranch
Hunger, self-awareness, being-mass, recursion
Connectionbranch
Interface gradient, indubitability, three contours, collective synchronization
Three phases of building the hostcrown
Body → observer → synthesis
Position — discrimination, not exitfruit
Set a sail in the wind of memeplexes, do not flee from the wind