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MindBrain
The MindBrain is the living, learning, self-modifying system through which we perceive, remember, interpret and act.Not just the brain. Not a ghost in the machine.One thing: bio...
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What a MindBrain can do
Copy — imitation, habituation & habit, memorization & recallChange — plasticity, association, generalization, variation & recombinationChoose — att...
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Five roles in the memetic game
Host — it carries patterns it did not inventReplicator — it repeats them: speech, gesture, drawing, habitMutator — it misremembers, reinterprets, recombinesSel...
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Experiment · The Whispering Chain
Five volunteers. The first reads this text, hides it, and writes it down from memory for the next. Nobody sees the original.On the third night the fox crossed the frozen river c...
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Replicate · Vary · Select
Replication + Variation + SelectionReplication — imitationVariation — play, curiosity, dreaming, forgetting, FehlleistungenSelection — Bandura says: mostly oth...
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A body first
Before it is a student, an artist or a meme host, the MindBrain belongs to an animal that has to:eatmatestay safestay in the group — rank, grooming, coalitions, gossip: ch...
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Archetypes
“An instinctive trend.”Jung: archetypes are inborn tendencies to form certain images — Mother, Child, Hero, Shadow, Trickster, Wise Old Man.Not a blueprint, bu...
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Which memes win?
The ones that feed a need or press an archetype.Food videos. Sex appeal. Outrage and threat. Gossip and rank. Belonging.Hero stories, villain stories, the trickster's joke.Think...
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Dopamine · wanting
Hebb: cells that fire together wire together. Dopamine decides which firing counts.Dopamine is not the pleasure molecule.It is the wanting molecule: go, get it, again. Liking is...
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Dopamine · surprise and the herd
Dopamine reports better than expected, not reward (Schultz).Expected and delivered: silence. Unexpected: burst. Expected and missing: dip.That is how habits — and feeds &m...
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Mirror neurons
See → do.Macaque premotor cortex (Rizzolatti, Parma): the same neurons fire when the monkey grasps and when it sees a grasp.A neural footprint of imitation: see → do.W...
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Prenatal · the first meme
Before any input: spontaneous kicks, spontaneous neural firing — variation with no outside cause.From about the 25th week the fetus hears. Newborns know their mother's voi...
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Infancy · the first selectors
Milk, warmth, a face: food and safety arrive bundled with a person.Smile at six weeks. Serve and return. Tronick's still face: stop responding and the baby protests, then withdr...
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Toddlers copy everything
Kuhl: nine-month-olds relearn Mandarin sounds from a live person — not from a video of the same person.Over-imitation: children copy even useless steps. Chimps skip them.H...
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Bandura
Bobo doll, 1961: children saw an adult hit it — and hit it too.Model rewarded: more imitation. Model punished: less (1965).Attention → retention → reproduction &...
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Whom do we copy?
Those who look at us and speak slowly. The majority. The successful. The similar — same accent, same group.Children track who has been right before.Primate rules: rank, ki...
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Variation · play and curiosity
Play is copying with mistakes allowed.Children explore more and exploit less than adults (Gopnik).Curiosity pays: information itself is rewarded by dopamine.Variation is not noi...
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Variation · dreaming and forgetting
Babies spend about half of their sleep in REM. Dreams remix what the day stored — why exactly, nobody knows.Forgetting is fast: Ebbinghaus's curve. Before age three: almos...
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Variation · Fehlleistungen
Versprechen, Verlesen, Vergessen, Verlieren: Freud's VER-.Not random: a second plan breaking through the first.Children say “goed” and “mouses”: a rule a...
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Adolescence · sex and the herd take the wheel
Reward sensitivity peaks, self-control matures later.Teens take more risks when peers watch (Chein). A “like” lights up the reward system (Sherman).In Jung's languag...
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Adolescence · the editor arrives
The prefrontal cortex keeps maturing into the mid-twenties.Metacognition: I notice that I am copying.Shadow: what I deny in myself I project onto others.The host can learn to ch...
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Reveal and exercise
The last version of the chain versus the original: what dropped, what was added, what became more typical?Which gatekeeper did it: food, sex, danger, group? Which archetype or s...
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Take home
Replication: imitation, with a body that mirrors.Variation: play, curiosity, dreams, forgetting, slips.Selection: other people, driven by bodies that want food, sex, safety and ...
