Proof of memes

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Argue with that! I dare you.

[JohnB]

That's great.

 

Do you want the five minute argument or the full half hour?

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I prefer one liners

[iNow]

I'd say "Proof of memes" is an excellent thread title. Well played sir.

 

 

http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/glossary.htm

What is a meme?

As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. ...

 

 

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