What are some applications of Dawkins' meme theory? How does a meme differ from an idea? Is "pure mathematics" a meme because math is not empirical?
>>7685515
Memes are like computer viruses, but for people.
It is a clear example of why science is a patriarchal construct of a male dominated society. It boils down the cultural identity of minorty groups into ideas that anyone can use! A clear example of white people appropriating the ideas of oppressed colored people.
>>7685525
This
>>7685515
Kek, dumb Jesus. State and Church marriages are independent of each other. Secondly, since they are (the ability to be married and actually being) given by the respective organs, there's nothing for him to say on the matter.
>>7685515
>How does a meme differ from an idea?
An idea can belong to an individual. A meme is simply a shared idea,
Memetics can examine how ideas spread, why some spread more widely than others (virality or "success"), and how they affect people's behavior.
>>7685515
words
words are memes you can say
>>7685515
You have to diffirentiate shit memes and good memes.
All internet memes are shit, except this one.
>>7685515
A meme is a shared idea you dolt.
>>7685515
This is what 4chan does to people.
Memes don't actually exist (for they are stored nowhere) and are a horrible analogy. Just like his analogy of calling a gene selfish, it makes sense until you think about it.
>>7686273
>Memes don't actually exist
Information exists, and memes are information.
>they are stored nowhere
They're stored in human (and some animal) minds, as well as externally (publications of various sorts)
> are a horrible analogy
Depends on how the term is used. People tend to overdo the memes as virus, or organisms, analogy, which can get ridiculous.
>>7686273
Thought transcends the material amiright? It's immaterial because it's stored nowhere....... not even in the brain that's thinking it....
woah... so this is the power.... of consciousness....
>>7686273
>Just like his analogy of calling a gene selfish
Dawkins discusses this in his own book. It boils down to 'selfish' being catchier than 'eternal' which is in-line with his meme theory.
It's all irrelevant anyway because evolution don't real ur just a fedora.
>>7685515
From the Baltimore Catechism.
>>7686925
Some religions are truly "no fun allowed" ways of life. One of the reasons I dropped my belief while really young.
