What are your opinions on memes?

Question

For those who have not heard of memes, some say that memes are somewhat like genes, but where genes can only be transferred through physical sexual reproduction, memes are of the mind and are predisposed to certain thought patterns.

Here is a link so you can better understand:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/religion_evolve.html

And, no. It is not an article about atheism, but the possibility of these memes being cause of different religions.

Please keep it serious people. I find it kind of neat myself, and just wonder your opinions on it.

Answer 1

I think it's a fascinating concept and seems entirely plausible.

Answer 2

Yeah !

Memes are real

cell is a physical counterpart of meme (with software/hardware & ability to reproduce, mutate ...)

Some familiar ROOT memes :
-love meme
-Hate mame


Cheers

Answer 3

I think it's an excellent concept to describe the movement of ideas - especially in an Internet age. I'm not convinced of the scientific quality of it, but that just means more research.

Answer 4

Memes, like clades and paradigms and epistemes are words that had meaning in their original philosophies and now are terms of the month.

Humbug.

Answer 5

Tribal out dated book philosophers are running out of lies. They kept lying for generations after generations to save their dumb as s books. Now with the modern science tools those lies have no life. Only the dumbest uneducated stupid idiots will believe such dumb fairy tale stories.

I'm serious.

Answer 6

Well, dear daughter, went to your link, then, went to wikepedia.com for undiluted definition....

Very interesting to be able to put a "name" to something!

Well worth looking at, thankyou :)

So....as to that character question I was answering just a bit ago.......add "meme's" to it, ok? thankyou :)