Re: Memetic takeover

On Oct 29, 11:34 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alpha wrote:
On Oct 29, 8:48 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alpha wrote:
Memes do nothing; they are ideas only and ideas do not construct
anything.
So: they are exacly like genes in that respect, then?

No, genes are by def. a biological instantiation that when part of a
process of explication, produce biolgical organisms.

Memes too code for adapted entities that take in material resources, and
use them to produce more copies of the memes.

Consider Linux, for example.  The memes are its source code, and
its phenotype consists of the manifestation of Linux in cell phones,
STBs, computers, etc all over the planet - the performance of which
feeds back and helps perpetuate the Linux memes.

Memes have associated active phenotypes just as much as genes do.

See my other reply on the difference between adaptations and
adaptational!

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