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Think of Memes as any ideas that are passed between lots of people. For example, a language, scientific theory, or religious belief are all memes. Memes have to be actively replicated to survive (i.e. spoken or written and distributed). A Rational Meme is a Good Explanation that relies on the recipient's critical faculties to cause itself to be... See more

Alex MacCaw • The Beginning of Infinity

Memes are the smallest units of a concept. And they’re like genes. The word is deliberately constructed to rhyme with gene. And so when I say, “Every woman should consider having only one child,” that’s a meme. And that meme goes out into society, where it competes with the family values meme, the gay lifestyle meme, the celibacy meme—they all... See more

Build Your Own Damn Wagon

Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called

Richard Dawkins • The Selfish Gene

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

perhaps it's more accurate to call personal notes an ecosystem rather than a garden — the most memetic notes survive if a note is memetic enough it spreads to other notes as a link... if a note is never linked from/to it slowly becomes extinct

kepano x.com

This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called ‘genes’, so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.1 Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing their memes, irrespective of the

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

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Yancey Strickler • At the end of this transmission will you still remember it?

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

@SpencrGreenberg The Selfish Gene

Paul Graham x.com