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Everything that seeks change has a vector along which its movement can be plotted. A memetic body includes the people who share the meme and the objects they use in achieving the meme's intention. Thus, while a memetic body, or meme bearer, has at least a metaphorical mass and vector, and this body impacts the larger social organism by its movement and communications, it need not necessarily be a living human. Egregores are also capable of transmitting memes, and as such they too are a memetic body. The meme has an extension into time and space, and to affect its vector, its direction, one must enter into this extension and apply some force to it. The most obvious method, and most widely used historically, in changing a memetic vector, is to physically alter or constrain the behavior of the meme-bearing members (an example that springs to mind is the historical cases of heresy being prosecuted by the Catholic Church). Another method involves transmitting an engineered phage into the memetic network to devour the meme.

Ray Kurzweil's seminal book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, includes an extended discussion of the 7 stages of technological adaptation. This model is easily adaptable to this engineered phagic²⁷ repurposing of an existing structure. In biology, a phage is a cell eater, a specific kind of virus which rewrites an organism to its own ends through injection of specific codes into the cell. In memetics, phagic repurposing is the mechanism of altering behavior by imparting coded information tailored to an existing meme. The model Kurzweil provides is the seven stages of behavioral changes throughout culture as it adapts to technological innovations. Viewing his steps from the aspect of those affected by innovation provides a way to understand this type of a memetic growth pattern.

The internet adds enough distance and speed, while at the same time the ability to keep records and examine online behaviors of vast numbers of bodies allows us to see some of these processes at work. The internet is unique in that it allows for non-local participation in performativity under stress, and in particular in that performance is disassociated from biological sexual identifiers and can exist solely within self-identified gender roles. While this doesn't directly create a division between mind-body, it does allow for a way to perceive a division between sex and gender. In other words, the only way other people know what gender you are is if you tell them directly through a profile's texts or indirectly through your references during a dialog.