Lin An's heart stirred after hearing this, and he thought over Jiang Hao Chen's words with some surprise.
He had to admit, this was the first time he had tried to understand memes from this angle.
It seemed Jiang Hao Chen's understanding of memes really did have some substance.
"So memes are like life. They aren't a whole, but gradually come alive through constant combinations."
"Just like inorganic matter combining into organic matter, or single cells combining into multicellular organisms. After repeated combinations, they ultimately complete the evolution of life?"
"They're also like a book, a story. A single word doesn't have much meaning, but once combined, a sentence has a complete meaning. A paragraph can even control people, driving them insane, killing them, or making them turn on and slaughter one another."
"A meme is a life-form parasitic within our thoughts. It's like an invisible insect. Once it comes alive, it can control us just as people control their own bodies?"
"The more you know, the more deeply you're controlled, until you become a meme—or it kills you?"
"Religion, sacrifice, culture, even habits of daily life—all of them count as memes?"
The more Lin An spoke, the more bizarre a feeling began to grow in his heart.
That was right. It was exactly like this. If memes were another form of living organism, then it could explain what Belief Bodies really were. At its core, gathering faith was also the condensation of a life-form existing between thought and spirit! That was also a special kind of meme.
It used shared belief as its brain and people as its vessels, appearing in the world!
A life-form that lived in a nonmaterial world yet could influence the material one?
Under Super Thinking, Jiang Hao Chen's words inspired Lin An. He felt