Where do the memes stick?
Which section of the brain is the one that culturally meshes with other people’s brains? Where is the location the memes stick to and how do these get collectively wired? Is there a location where culture, religion, nationalism, ideologies lie? Is there a location that stores humanities historical knowledge? Do our brains evolve across time creating new pathways to move ideas around and to make that knowledge more accessible? Which part of the brain makes crazy things like naming a teddy bear mohamed a crime, having your picture taken for a driver’s license illegal, that decides beauty or which collectively directs that there are certain ways of doing things or that decides something is tradition? If it is not the brain then are our thoughts material? Energy forces? Do they occupy a space beyond us? Are they analogous to clouds/ clusters of energy particles that only some bodies or collections of bodies with certain pathways can access? If thoughts and ideas are so powerful, where are they?
This is something i have been thinking about lately. It is really not worked out, and this fun topographic map of the brain got me wondering out loud a bit!
