The Selfish Meme

I am a meme. You are a meme. Your cat is a meme. Everything that exists is a meme. A meme is a concept, composed of information, that makes stuff happen. It’s also a program that reads (“observes”) a slice of Reality and updates the state in discrete steps, causing an effect on the world. All that exists is memes, including Reality itself. A TIMESTAMP OF REALITY Every meme/observer asks the following questions each step: - How should interpret the raw data I’m observing? - What has happened so far? - What should I do next? Each meme computes its best binary guess at would it should do next to get replicated, and writes its action into the state, causing some event. As for the human min...View all