Concept
The assumption that culture comes in discrete, copyable units (memes as replicators, analogous to genes). The load-bearing premise of memetics — and the one its critics attack hardest, arguing cultural transmission is reconstructive, not copy-based. (Catalog gap flagged by the memetics-critique extraction.)
Connections
- Defined in: Selection As The Other Engine
- Discussed in: Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Evidenced by: An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media, Memetics — a critique
- Contradicted by: Memetics — a critique
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