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This makes it sound almost as if ideas themselves were "alive", in the sense that they reproduce and undergo natural selection, with the best ideas being "remix
by arcastroe 5y ago
This makes it sound almost as if ideas themselves were "alive", in the sense that they reproduce and undergo natural selection, with the best ideas being "remixed" into new idea babies
- guerrilla 5y agoI believe that's the point of memetics. Richard Dawkins wroteva book on it.
- CRConrad 5y agoBut, as someone told me here not long ago (though I knew it already), the fight for ownership of that term is lost: A "meme" nowadays is a .JPG with some "funny" text in block letters on it. Edit to add: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668317