RE: Richard Dawkins Faith In Memes Is As Blind As A Christian's to God
July 15, 2010 at 10:03 pm
define an 'individual idea'. get to the route of what you are saying. yours is a lazy and vague description. get to the fundementals. this is science after all, is it not? in which case there is no room for vagueness.
not even the top scientists working on memetics can come to a consensus on the definition, yet you all know! you do realise memetics is theory, not fact?
sn, you say memes are ideas that are popular and have spread... which suggests that unpopular ideas that have not spread far are not memes, correct? this would mean that not all ideas are memes, invalidating your original definition. also, what level of popularity do you believe is required to transform an idea into a meme?
not even the top scientists working on memetics can come to a consensus on the definition, yet you all know! you do realise memetics is theory, not fact?
sn, you say memes are ideas that are popular and have spread... which suggests that unpopular ideas that have not spread far are not memes, correct? this would mean that not all ideas are memes, invalidating your original definition. also, what level of popularity do you believe is required to transform an idea into a meme?
