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Evolution Is No Longer Dependent Upon Random Mutation and Natural Selection: It Is We As Human Beings Who Will Determine The Survival and Future Evolution of All Forms of Life On Earth. Thought Contagion: 1. A self-spreading thought, idea, attitude, belief, or other brain-stored item of learned culture. 2. The process of ideas self-propagating in a population. 3. (Technical usage) A memory item, or portion of an individual's neurally stored information, whose causation depended critically upon prior instantiation …

…the face. *The vMEME term is an effort to show the connection between (a) the ideas carried in memes and (b) the underlying 'V'alue Systems (better called valuing systems), thinking, worldviews, coping systems, Spiral colors, or what Dr. Clare W. Graves' also called levels of psychological existence. Some confuse the two domains by calling the content (memes) and the containers (vMEMEs) by the same name, an approach which dilutes and muddles the significance of both.