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I think so. A good analogy is to ant colonies. Individual ants make up a colony, much like cells make up a human body. And yet the colony has an intelligence that’s beyond that of any individual ant. Similarly, one can usefully model human ideologies as meta-organisms that script human beings, much like ant colonies script ants. Sometimes the ideologies are symbiotic and result in the reproduction of both the ideology and the underlying host…like ant colonies help ants reproduce. At other times, human ideologies can be parasitic, by replicating at the expense of the underlying host…like a mind virus that inhibits reproduction. The selfish meme.