The dilution of the self. Becoming a brand. An egregore spread across a multitude of minds. The fame monster?
An imaginary friend with which you can form a close personal relationship with. The relationships we have with our concept of self. A selfhood defined in terms of our percept of the other?
A fabricated being that exists in the land of identity politic. The land of ideas. Meme space-time?
The force of the collective. A shared state. A shared perspective. A meta-model of mental models?
The negative space in the shape of your egregore.
A slug eating slime-mold.
https://youtu.be/Azm4O6UIgnk
A slug eating slime-mold.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/12/18/predatory-slime-mould-freezes-prey-in-large-groups/
A slug eating slime-mold.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781558605954500036
@ultimape
I need it!!
The egregore of slime; itself a thought manifesting.
"This concept can be broadened, or maybe given a more technical spin if we think about a new idea: the meta-animal. That is, an organism that arises from a group of organisms. One very familiar example is the state, which rises from the people of a nation. A biological example is a slime mold, which is a colony of cells that behave as an individual creature."
https://mythmademan.blogspot.com/2015/11/meta-animals-thoughtforms-egregore.html
@ultimape this reminds me of
"The Slime Mold is as Good an Economic Model as Any"
https://medium.com/@everestpipkin/the-slime-mold-is-as-good-an-economic-model-as-any-ebec4062acd7
@charlyblack plants being eaten by bacteria. bacteria eaten by slime-mold. Slime-mold eaten by slugs. Slugs being jerks to ants. Ants as exosuits for bacteria to protect them from slime. Ants eating slugs. Slugs eating plants.
Life feeds on life. Ecosystems all the way down.
A steelmanning of "energy". The notion: what you put out into the world matters?
Memes resonate in other heads, causing emotional shift. An intrinsic mental contagion?
A wave of ideas ripple thru the herd, causing disruption. An idea that infects the host's ideas, but also mutates itself?
The rare idea that leaves a host happier, but whose outcome is toxic to their friends?
Egregore wanting to be in control of it's own destiny. Innoculating against the self-other destroying selfish meme.