"Wild" Memes

 

Isolated or similar memes are slow to change, since there is no great challenge to their survival.  (See below)  In other parts of the mind, however, currents are swift and the memes, like all other mind-stuff, are thrown together.

At this volocity and volume, memes don't meld. They ATTACK!

Out here in the wild of the mind, memes morph at a warp-speed. They attach and grow together instinctually, while rejecting and tearing other species apart. Although almost every kind of permutation is imaginable, memes seem to group with other memes around the same age, morphing into their own identities in "schools" or "packs". 

 

As they grow older, memes slow down and take on mass and weight, settling into the mind in large communities. making their tendency towards inertia greater. In this way the enlarged mass of older memes can serve as hosts or even vehicles for smaller memes still finding their way. Since nothing in the mind is permanent, even these large structures eventually break apart, or die out, giving rise to new memes in the millions.

In a darker, denser part of the mind, these memes are hatching and evolving at a more languid pace.

Still, their  razor-sharp, barb teeth and beaks guard their spawn until their fins morph into wings and they flap away, like locusts.