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Saturday, November 27, 2004

Meme

A lot of them on the internet, but its origins are more mundane than that

The term was first coined by zoologist, evolutionist and fervent atheist Richard Dawkins (Should I email him?), in famous book The Selfish Gene. A meme is an idea that functions in the same way that an actual physiological gene is supposed to, i.e. subject to the same rules of evolution and survival. Memes compete with other memes in the memepool, for precious mindspace in human brains. More successful i.e. more appealing memes survive to spawn offspring in other minds, while less appealing ones gradually fade from minds over time, never to be resurrected again.

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