📜 A HIERARCHY OF MEMES
📜 A HIERARCHY OF MEMES From Animal-Stupidity to Omega-Class Infinite Thought Memes are not merely jokes, images, or viral cultural artifacts — they are self-replicating information organisms. They behave like life: competing, evolving, mutating, adapting, dying, and ascending. Civilization is built from the memes that survive. Consciousness evolves according to the memes it inherits. The future of intelligence depends on the memes we choose to replicate. This paper lays out a complete memetic evolutionary ladder , from the dumbest reflex-virals to the highest form of intelligence possible: The Omega Thought — the smartest thought a mind can think. TIER 1 — Proto-Memes Zero-intelligence information life These are the bottom of the memetic food chain. They do not require thought, interpretation, or reasoning — only exposure. Examples include: Random jokes Sound bites Catchphrases Viral images with no context These memes spread like bacteria — rapidly, unintent...