The idea of the ‘meme’, introduced by Dawkins and derided by others as not scientific, attempts to offer some explanation about how ideas spread through a culture. Although the rules for transmission haven’t been fully understood yet, Deutsch says, “new ideas have to provide ‘good explanations’ for phenomena”, which means that for memes to spread the idea embodied by the meme has to make sense. It needs to be relevant, appropriate, acceptable, at least to some people, in order to spread. Random and nonsensical ideas don’t spread. Ideas that seem random and nonsensical to some people spread with others because they become part of a ‘memeplex’.
Join a memeplex to spread ideas
Join a memeplex to spread ideas
Join a memeplex to spread ideas
The idea of the ‘meme’, introduced by Dawkins and derided by others as not scientific, attempts to offer some explanation about how ideas spread through a culture. Although the rules for transmission haven’t been fully understood yet, Deutsch says, “new ideas have to provide ‘good explanations’ for phenomena”, which means that for memes to spread the idea embodied by the meme has to make sense. It needs to be relevant, appropriate, acceptable, at least to some people, in order to spread. Random and nonsensical ideas don’t spread. Ideas that seem random and nonsensical to some people spread with others because they become part of a ‘memeplex’.