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Virulent Ideas, Memetic Engineering, Memeoid Identity, Aesthetic Warfare.

The main topic of this paper is reshaping of identity by propaganda, cultural programming and formation of memeoids ; self-distructive membots, such as suicide killers ; persons "whose behavior is so strongly influenced by a meme that their own survival becomes inconsequential in their own minds." (Henson). This paper explores replication and transmission of ideas and customs focusing on an element of a culture that may be considered to be passed on by non‐genetic means, such as “imitation”. The term “meme”, coined by Dawkins by analogy with gene, is defined as contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern "gene". One of the topics in the suggested context is memetic engineering (Rolando, Sokol, Burchett), an insight into the behavior of people exposed to virulent memetic themes (e.g. Racism). Although our starting point is in memetic theory, this paper questions some aspects of memetic approach to culture, explores memetics as a meme in itself, pointing to possible misuses of theoretic and pseudo- scientific insight into the principles of meme production connected to military abuses of “applied memetic engineering” in ”inhibiting imitative terrorism”.

human cognitive evolution, mimesis, memetic theory, meta system transition theory, identity theories, meme, choreo-meme, mneme, memoids, membots, memetic engeneering, Zurich Dada

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