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A meme is basically a thought and superficial explained in analogy to genes. They can be created, copied, altered, deleted and can experience some kind of evolution within individuals and societies. If you keep comparing memes with genes, many children get their knowledge and believe from their parents, teachers and other, older authorial and/or charismatic persons which resembles vertical gene transfer while adapting memes from friends or "brothers in mind" ("Brüder im Geiste") resemble horizontal gene transfer. Since not all memes are passed from one person to another and don't keep the same, they can be seen to be evolve through selection and mutation.

The Damocles sword within: Information of ERVs and other viral elements can cause damage but also help immune responses. Viral meme (in sense of not agreeing with but occupying space within the host) are more successful in spreading than their biological counterpart but also get less expressed. Their analysis can be used e.g. within a discussion to formulate arguments that stand against the hostile-felt meme standing in analogy to a biological immune response.

Bad memes replicate as long as they don't kill their host. The survival of the fittest is an outdated view as also organisms with inherited disease create offspring. A "sufficient" survival rate is enough. And so, also genes and memes can stand in conflict with their own kind get passed on. Opposing memes are easier to occur since their use depends on the situation which results often in double standards and are criticized by other persons as unfair. The usefulness of a meme depends on its context and perspective. "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

Any person is to be seen as a connected system of its metal and physical parts.

Biocracy's defines lower life as: all life is running code within at least one unit whereby matter and energy is consumed for self-preservation.