In contrast, there is little theoretical analysis or experimental study of memes.
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However, this is not the whole story, and individual differences in susceptibility to particular memes may reflect differences in genotype and development.
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Unfortunately, computer music memes are not replicating and spreading themselves much further than narrow technically specialised audiences.
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Isn't it simpler to posit that selection is taking place not at the level of groups of individuals, but at the level of memes themselves?
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We agree with most of this, although we prefer not to use language that implies that memes are independent living entities.
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In this way, memes introduce new selectional forces and new kinds of variation into the cultural evolutionary process.
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The minds are habitats of the memes, and they are certainly limited in their capacity.
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The advantages of precision and predictability conferred by these mathematical models are bought at the considerable price of sidestepping the distributed, relational processes through which memes are stored and evoked.
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Each mind has only a limited ability for the support of memes; therefore, there is considerable 'competition' among memes for entry into as many minds as possible.
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According to this account, then, the concept-wielding mind is a kind of social construction, brought into existence through the absorption of memes from the surrounding culture.
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Similarly, human beings do not create or adopt cultural variants (or memes) at random, because past phylogenetic and developmental processes, including past learning, inform these creative and selective processes.
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Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success.
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Thinking is an ever-creative process; no two instantiations of amemeare ever the same.
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With respect to memetics, the authors are bothered by the lack of a clear definition of ameme.
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Dawkins'memehas a peculiar but powerful role to play in our understanding of the human culture.
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