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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by catlifeonmars on Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:10PM (#28951934)
As another poster mentioned, memes are analogous to viruses in their interaction with humans. I would hazard to guess that any survival value to humans is purely accidental, especially taking into account the time frames involved.
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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by s1artibartfast on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:20PM (#28952770)
Are you claiming that fire, language, and medicine have no survival value? All of these are memes or composed of memes.
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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by catlifeonmars on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:44AM (#28987696)
Certainly they do, and perhaps before the internet, a larger proportion of memes were of the useful type. For whatever reason, post-internet, memes are no longer reliant on having survival value to humans in order to propagate. Note that the converse is not true.
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