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== Genes and Memes == | == Genes and Memes == | ||
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| + | In analogy with gene, a meme is any form of cultural replicator - | ||
| + | an idea, behavior, style or usage that spreads from person to | ||
| + | person within a culture. In the narrower sense, only those | ||
| + | ideas can be considered as a meme which form a kind of body | ||
| + | as survival mechanism. | ||
| + | Just as genes are the recipes for stringing together | ||
| + | amino acids into proteins, memes are the general recipes | ||
| + | for stringing together independent objects into | ||
| + | coherent systems: ideas into theories, persons into | ||
| + | social systems, and individuals into groups. | ||
Both genes and memes are capable of being copied and replicated. | Both genes and memes are capable of being copied and replicated. | ||
