In short, an antimeme is a unit of idea or clusters of information that is non-replicating in nature.

Description

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a meme as “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.”1 Richard Dawkins defined meme as a noun that “conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.”2 In short, a meme is a unit of idea or clusters of information that resides in mind with self-replicating nature.

An antimeme is the opposite of a meme. It is an idea or a cluster of information. It is very hard, or impossible, to replicate, transmit, retain, or learn. In short, an antimeme is a unit of idea or clusters of information that is non-replicating in nature.

Real life offers examples of antimemes. One example is highly guarded secret information. Another is a dream. A third is the face of a random passerby during a daily commute. A long passage of text that does not interest the reader is also an antimeme. The reader neither replicates, transmits, retains, nor learns it. The most extravagant antimeme on Earth is the Great Wheels3. A restriction binds them to the same plane as the terminator line of Planet Earth.

Application

  • Antimeme Camouflage Array (or simply AMCA): an array of devices arranged to start and maintain multimodal agent propagation, for one antimeme or for many. The purpose is to make a particular object of interest highly forgettable.

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  1. Meriam-Webster Dictionary, Meme ↩︎

  2. Dawkins, Richard (1989), “11. Memes: the new replicators”, The Selfish Gene (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 368, ISBN 978-0-19-217773-5, p. 352. ↩︎

  3. Also known as the Ophanim. ↩︎