What about archetype?
If the Gene is a physical replicator, and the Meme is a mental replicator, can the Archetype be a spiritual replicator?
archetype:
(from Greek archetypos, "original pattern"), in literary criticism, a
primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs
throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered
a universal concept or situation. The term was adopted by literary
critics from the writings of the psychologist Carl Jung, who
formulated a theory of a "collective unconscious." For Jung, the
varieties of human experience have somehow been genetically coded
and transferred to successive generations. These primordial image
patterns and situations evoke startlingly similar feelings in both reader
and author.
Encyclopædia Britannica
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Anders wrote
> To continue the series: what would it be to have *three* kinds of > replicators? > > Genes, memes and... ? >
(picking up a dropped thread)
Emlyn