Richard Dawkins Faith In Memes Is As Blind As A Christian's to God

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Philosopher John Gray:

...on Richard Dawkins's theory of memes - units of information whose competition somehow explains the development of thought. One problem with memes is that, unlike genes, they are not identifiable physical structures. Ideas are elusive things - think of the ways in which artistic styles emerge and develop. It shows a sorry lack of cultural understanding to imagine that the baroque, say, can be reduced to a few simple structures.

You keep saying that the lack of a physical structure for a meme is a weakness, it is not.
It is unnecessary, it is a distraction from the theory or meme about memes.

The idea that ideas can be transfered, changed over time and replaced is so self evidently true that I cant believe we've spent his long trying to convince you.