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The word has simply acquired two meanings: "meme" as in the informational analogue of genes, "meme" as in an internet meme. The two meanings are unrelated, the
by andrepd 6y ago
The word has simply acquired two meanings: "meme" as in the informational analogue of genes, "meme" as in an internet meme.
The two meanings are unrelated, they just happen to share the same word, probably since memes propagate in a similar way to memes. The "concept of meme" as informational analogue of genes is a thing independently of any other meanings the same word may acquire.