Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Memes/reply (2)

Maybe I'm a hundred years behind, but aren't "memes" just a made up term to help organize the way we think, and the way ideas spread?

On of my instinctive bristles about much of this cognitive vocab is the sense that people use these concepts (chunking, memes, seeding) as if they are "things" that actually exist in the world, rather than descriptions of how we as humans process the world.

ADK, when you talk about applying memetics to actual natural selection, then you take them out of the context of a social construction and make (individual memes, i think?) them "real" as if they can be acted upon by biology rather than social structure. Or am i again, lost, 20 years behind?