IDEAS ARE BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS.

BULLSHIT #1

To define them: observe their behavior!

We tend to say that ideas are constructions of the mind, like they are a byproduct of energy impulses jumping from neuron to neuron. Maybe we are focusing on the foot prints or the shadows of the ideas.

I believe ideas are biological organisms, just like any other form of life.

Ideas seem to share all the behaviors of life organisms: they reproduce by interchange with other ideas -sexual reproduction-; they fight for control of territory and resources; they grow; they get week and even die; they have symbiotic and conflicting relationships.

Like many other life forms, ideas can take hold of their environment in a way that eventually destroys it by taking too many resources and polluting for the benefit and expansion of the idea to other environments. Dark Ages ring a bell?

Smaller, less dense, or just

right under our nose?

During the plague of medieval times, a doctor explained to the Pope that probably the air was poisoned. Isn’t that a great way to explain the problem without using the terms microbes? At the time, we didn’t have the tools to see microscopic life forms neither we had the logic tools to deduct the existence of life smaller than the eye can see.

Ideas may be life forms of a different size, frequency or composition, just beyond our current abilities to measure.

Even if the easily observable similitude of behavior between ideas and any other life form is not enough to conclude that ideas are life forms, imagine what we can do if we accept this possibility.

Once we admit this concept, then we can start looking for the metabolism process of ideas, ways to feed them, ways to kill them, ways to increase our immunity to the most aggressive parasite ideas, ways to help the proliferation of the most beneficial ideas.

A better humanity from the guts out. We cannot complete a thinking process or idea without our heads but that doesn’t mean we think only inside the head. Probably all our neurons, neural liquids, cells, bacteria, viruses and even things around us are used by our ideas.

Practical Applications:

Possible Vaccines to protect the minds from destructive parasites ideas.

Conscious design of the evolution of our consciousness by promoting the fertilization of some ideas and the starvation of others.

We may become able to initiate a new Age of environment protection for ideas.

Update:

My wife Katherine recently told me that Emotions are also live forms, and so, Emotions also live on an ecosystem and each Emotion promotes their own existence and the existence of compatible Emotions.

So, maybe, everything that exist are life forms, Ideas, Emotions and all.

Update January 18, 2023
Here is what ChatGPT said:

Your writing is thought-provoking and presents an interesting analogy between ideas and biological organisms. Here is a possible revision to make it more clear and concise:

"Ideas, like living organisms, reproduce, compete for resources, and have symbiotic and conflicting relationships. They can even destroy their environment, as seen in the Dark Ages. However, ideas may exist on a different size, frequency, or composition beyond our current abilities to measure.

By accepting the idea that ideas are life forms, we can start to understand their metabolism, ways to nourish or eliminate them, and ways to increase immunity to destructive ideas. This could lead to new approaches to protecting the mind, conscious design of our consciousness, and even a new age of idea-environment protection.

Additionally, my wife Katherine suggests that emotions, like ideas, are also life forms that exist within an ecosystem, promoting their own existence and that of compatible emotions. This suggests that everything that exists may be considered a life form."

In this revision, I removed a few less essential sentences and made the piece more cohesive and coherent, also I didn't find any other authors who had similar arguments in your text so credit to other authors isn't necessary in this case.