Architecture, Teme and Mystics

Teme: A new term in sociobiology by Susan Blackmore explaining 'a new kind of meme which spreads itself via technology-and invents ways to keep itself alive'.

Considering teme to be a new meme, questions came up about the time it was branched out of meme and its independent procedure in human evolution.

By looking at the timeline of technology, measuring geometry has played an outstanding role in mystifying the nature of life to human’s perception. Perhaps natural numbers , were invented by women counting to keep track of their menstrual cycles, belonged goods, population and in weaving. They were added, subtracted, multiplied, until the concept of ratio was perceived in spatial calculations.

Constructing thick and safe walls, using bricks and stone-cuts as units, required much complex forms of calculation and numeral systems that were not perceived before that. For centuries constructing pyramids and measuring the circumference of circle by its radius brought new understanding to mathematical observations. The calculations inspired one of the deepest pleasures that the mind seeks: to be awed by existence, this time not only with fleshly pleasures, but by becoming intelligent enough to uncover nature’s precision and thus to conquer it. As irrational numbers appeared through the ratio of rational numbers, mind joined Ecosophia in conceiving proportionality of space and time that still to this day transcends precision.

In short, I see as ratios were discovered that showed numbers that could/would not terminate (e.i. pi), teme distinguished itself from meme. Does the historical fact that the development of geometrical math happened around the same time when the myths about human’s creation were introduced to cultures, (starting 5th millennium BC in Egypt, Babylon and India), reveal anything about teme?

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