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We also have two models of memetic space: Meme space as cyberspace, a virtual space that occupies the nodal memory of a communication network, and Meme space as both trend growth and long tail over a population of meme carriers. The memetic carriers can be graphed out based on a long tail distribution that can have a variety of propagation stages layered over it. The long tail distribution graph is a comparison of the mass of memetic bodies. Meme space as cyberspace is smooth, while meme space as long tail is striated.¹⁵ The language that has emerged from both science and magic has a place in defining this paradigm of memes, emergent behaviors, social networks, and attention economies. Our relation to the invisible has always relied on magical theory, and the technological applications of waves, harmonics, and wireless networks are manifesting emergent consciousness in precisely these ways.

Magic has always been about the encoding of meaning, about symbolic literacy, about the creation, and even the restoration, of calendars. Memetics is a way of comprehending the ramifications of such encoding, identifying the systems that result from rituals, and transmitting meaning into a goal-oriented complex system--the meme space. Memes are more than a linguistic phenomenon.¹⁶ Understanding the memetic ecosphere and the meta-biological organisms that share meme space alongside us flesh and blood types is the responsibility of the memeticist.

The memetic ecosphere is directly analogous to the concept of cyberspace. A virtual space is created when the nodes of a communication network have memory. While it is intermittent in time and space, it is concurrent in the imaginal time of the communication occurring.1 An example of a limited form of cyberspace is the teleconference, in which numerous telephone attendees meet in an auditory space wherein everyone is privy to the conversation and the conversation itself is recorded for future playback.¹⁷