Skip to content
Model
Memenomics 0.2
Abstract
Memenomics: Economics of Memplexes
This paper applies economic principles to analyze memplexes, as outlined by Memplexes are selfish replicators that leverage physical mechanisms—such as individuals or groups—for their own self-replication. We explore how memplexes interact, cooperate, or engage in conflict when competing for control over these mechanisms.
Within the World Model framework, we propose treating memplexes as economic actors that maximize their profits while transacting in markets. The fundamental currency in these markets is the voting or control right over mechanisms. Since mechanisms operate using energy, currency—whether monetary or social—can be broadly defined as a control right over energy, enabling the replication of memes and other replicators.
Currency may take the form of traditional monetary assets (e.g., national currencies) or social currency, where transaction prices and settlement dates are undefined or fluid. We further refine the concept of profit, noting that it fails to account for long term structural consequences of a transaction. Thus, we prefer capitalization as a key metric for evaluating transactions, incorporating not only immediate profit but also long-term effects on replication potential.
In summary, we propose a shift in perspective where memplexes, rather than physical mechanisms, become the primary economic actors whose replication interests must be priced into economic analysis. Additionally, we extend traditional economic calculations to social currency markets and emphasize the need to account for capital gains in transactions to better model the long-term evolutionary dynamics of memplexes.
Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.
This is not the way.
Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (
CtrlP
) instead.