# Memeplex is a group of memes that help to cause each other’s replication ## Associated Entries: - [[./ Just as genes often work together in groups to achieve what we might think of as a single adaptation, so there are memeplexes consisting of several ideas which can, alternatively, be thought of as a single more complex]] - [[./ Thus, in the crucial respect that is relevant to meme replication, aping has the same logic as parroting like the parrot, the ape avoids the infinite ambiguity of copying by already knowing, inexplicitly, the meaning]] - [[./ Such molecules are called replicators. More generally, a replicator is any entity that causes certain environments to copy it. Not all replicators are biological, and not all replicators are molecules. For example, a]] - [[./ Moreover, the society has to continue to function throughout. But the coexistence of rational and anti-rational memes makes this transition unstable. Memes of each type cause behaviours that impede the faithful]] #L2