God also made us have to selectively breed grasses for 10,000 years just so we could make the bread he would specify later in the Bible. Watching us starve to death for generations before we forcibly evolved wheat.

When I am experiencing media which is a piece of fiction such as a book, movie or TV show.

You are correct. It is the only true work.

has a cat, drinks coffee, plays guitar.

This is WAY off, I play bass.

one mind… just a different one

My point exactly. But ignoring that?

they have to receive it

Define recieve, is inbox OK? Is a glance ok? Do they have to understand it? (Is an Italian meme a meme if I don’t speak italian?)

You were saying the OP wasn’t a meme, but it was recieved by at least you and me, and unknowably countless others.

Myself at two different points in time could be considered “two minds”: my mind now, my mind at the point of sending the email, especially if the time period involved is a long time and I forgot about it.

Failing that I could email it to anyone - they don’t even need to recieve the email as the qualia of receiving the communication wasn’t specified in the definition.

Reminder my original point was that eventually this conversation will lead to aporia.

I’d say every nation state is a dynamic headache and they all have flags

I mean per my previous comment: define “inside” “joke” “shared” “internet” “certain number” “agree” “one mind” “another mind”…

I could email myself the letter “e” and then say “this is funny” to myself and it would meet this definition

While I sympathize with your frustration, this is the same question we were asking at the fin de ciecle over Duchamp’s Fontaine over “is this art?” - and has been repeated in “what is theatre/fiction?” “Is borat fiction?” “Is an advertisement a movie?” “Are documentaries neccessarily non fiction?” which leads you all the way back to epistemology, the Socratic method, and a state of aporia.

The only reasonable conclusion is “if anyone says it’s a meme it’s a meme”

Sure - a meme is a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, often propagating throughout a community and frequently subject to a form of cultural evolution.

Yes

The business:

Yeah it’s a trip! Not many movies would spend 15 minutes on a weed-infused dream sequence

I’m surprised no one said Dolly Parton’s 9-to-5.

well nowadays it’s called White Christmas

“If you set meetings at an unusual time people have to be on time! That’s why we set it at 18 minutes before 9! It’s not so that we can check you’re definitely working by 9am! AND it allows us to discuss all important company matters every day. OK so order of business number one is my daughter had a school play last night and let me tell you not one of those recorders was played in tune…”

18 minute daily stand-up frequently goes to 90 minutes

Plus clients that think that talking to you is a good use of retainer - you don’t need to spend an entire hour describing a PowerPoint presentation to me, you can actually just use PowerPoint to add the blue box you’re talking about yourself.

I’ve found many systems don’t work with the .company TLD!

Sometimes I want to have a wank and a wash immediately after

I mean the classic is actors saying “break a leg” - which actors actually take very seriously.