>>5820822Is this gonna be another one of those threads where you never give an answer to your own question?
They do get a bit tiring sometimes, y'know?
>>5820889Ah, I hate that guy
But it's not a point too far off.
That Pratchett guy made some relevant point about this in the hogswatch book
Ideals can only be real if we make them real. If you look at memes as a sort of new phenotype, you can sort of see a meaning beyond reproduction in life, even if it's reproduction of a phenotype that's not exactly us. And I'm not talking about cool, sweet image macros and the mcchicken sandwich~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (XD)
In a sense, ideals are memes promoted by those with the strength to promote them. If right and wrong (memes) are decided by the victors, human life can be seen to be in a constant fight not just to reproduce (how to put it in a way that differentiates? I'm not quite sure. Physically?), but also to reproduce our own senses of right and wrong. Our virtues.
As far as weather meaning in itself is a human concept, it's hard to say. I don't really understand how great a capacity non-humans have for this sort of thing, but experiments done on monkeys show that they have some sort of cultural conditioning, so presumably, even if shallow in other creatures, it's not unique to humans. And that's excluding whatever there is to say about the ayy lmaos
