memes and genes; disney's frozen hope

Why did Disney freeze his head? Just a little musing......

Most probably exclusive for us humans, we have more than one set of information to propogate.
the first is digital information in the form of DNA genetic codes. We pass them on by procreation. But with the onset of 'higher thought' and 'self conciousness' ( i use these terms loosely), our thoughts take a life of their own. We create a thought, we want to spread it, and make sure it survives. I mean, just look at conversations these a days. People mostly want to be heard but arent really interested in hearing what others have to say.

So maybe this is the reason why people want to lenghthen their lives, or if possible, become immortal. This way, these thought organisms (the collective thoughts = thought collective = TC of a brain) would be able to churn out more babies (thoughts) and try to influence people to accept it, remmeber it. Like how each emperor or pharoah would build his tomb larger, more grand than the previous one. It is a fact that our brains wil eventaully wither and die, but the TC can never grow withered (there is no 'limiting factor' to the reproductive capacity of a TC other than the physical brain that carries its essence, and the initial capabilities of the thought collective itself, i.e. intelligence ) and seeks to escape its physical boundaries, and some of them do make the jump: books, schools of thoughts etc.

Look at Socrates, his thoughts (clones) live on in books and are propogated to even other minds (schools of thoughts), or colonization if that may be the word to use. Immortality is achieved? Maybe, but the reproductive/growth cababilities of these thought-collectives is somewhat halted with the death of the original TC; it can no longer build upon its own ideas, and must rely on other colonised TCs to help it propogate. This propogation isnt necessarily of high fidelity; these colonised TCs will eventaully adapt and change socrate's TC for their own use in the light of different environments and influences.

And this must be what disney feared; which is probably why he froze his mickeymouse head in a freezer and hoped that future scientists could bring his TC back to life. And see his mice in their million hordes. Viva la Mickey!

Kev; comments?