It's not discredited, because it wasn't credited in the first place.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.Essentially, that the spread of ideas is analogous to the spread of genes.
Where genes make bodies, memes make minds. And evolution and so forth apply to these memes. Is the idea.
edited 27th Jan '11 7:33:11 PM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.Checks 4chan...Nope.
In all seriousness here is wikipedia's definition on a meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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edited 27th Jan '11 8:13:57 PM by americanbadass
[[User Banned]]_ My Pm box ix still open though, I think?Live Forever is better.
I'm not sure what's there to disprove. I think what they're trying to disprove is that ideas somehow change the way our brain works or something like that, which is taking it way too far, when all we're talking about is that ideas can spread rather organically. I hear something, it sounds good to me, I tell my friends/family/acquaintances, they like it, they tell other people and so on.
Nothing more, Nothing less.
Democracy is the process in which we determine the government that we deserve

I was in a class on literary darwinism and torwards the end I brought up meme theory cause it seemed like like something that would be relevant to that liteary approach. Now, the proffesor did not seem to disagree with me, but he/she did mumble that "meme theory has been discredited" and did not say more. Now, I am by not too familiar with memes, but I only have read argument so far, nothing that discredits completly. So, any truth to the statement?