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Memesis Is What Makes Us Different From Other Animals
Memesis is the fundamental capacity and tendency to gain access to the subjectivity of others, as well as to reproduce objective cultural forms. In other words, memesis is what constitutes us as social beings and makes us different from other animals. Gerard separates the entirety of human desires into two species, the desire to be, which he terms metaphysical desire, and the desire to experience, which he refers to as physical desire. He says that when we say something is protigious, we are perhaps also saying that on its own, it does not deserve the value we attribute to it. For these people, sexes no longer about sex, but something more corps to their identity. They are not out there