Like the infonnation patterns that evolve through.biological processes, mental representations or memes evolve through adaptive exploration and transfonnation of an infonnation space through variation, selection, and transmission.However since memes do not contain instructions for their replication our brains do it for them, strategically, guided by a fitness landscape that reflects both internal drives and a worldview that fonns through meme assimilation.This paper presents a tentative model for how an individual becomes a memeevolving agent via the emergence of an autocatalytic network of sparse, distributed memories, and discusses implications for complex creative thought processes and why they are unique to humans.A hypothetical scenario for the evolutionary dynamics of a given meme in a society of interacting individuals is presented.
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