He defined memes as any kind of non-genetic information that is shared and spread by humans. So even what people will define memes as now are still memes in the sense Dawkins defined it as. Just about the only thing we do that isn’t a meme, is having children.
@[email protected] He also said that memes mutate and evolve in a way analogous to genes. The concept of memes has itself mutated and evolved to the point that it nowadays most commonly refers to recognisable image macros (though in the Dawkinsian sense, an image macro is not actually a meme, but rather an instance of one meme).
He defined memes as any kind of non-genetic information that is shared and spread by humans. So even what people will define memes as now are still memes in the sense Dawkins defined it as. Just about the only thing we do that isn’t a meme, is having children.
@[email protected] He also said that memes mutate and evolve in a way analogous to genes. The concept of memes has itself mutated and evolved to the point that it nowadays most commonly refers to recognisable image macros (though in the Dawkinsian sense, an image macro is not actually a meme, but rather an instance of one meme).
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