Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution
by s1artibartfast on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:20PM
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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
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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.