Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Memes/reply (41)

That is pretty handy isn't it? My main problem, though, isn't that they don't "exist" per se -- lots of models don't truly exist in the "real" world, but they do provide useful predictions. I can't see the useful aspect of memetics. It doesn't give much in the way of predictive value, and what predictions it does make seem to end up being either trivial and tautological (ideas spread, no shit!) or totally cranky and false (e.g., Blackmore's contention that the big brain evolved as a "meme machine," a just-so story if there ever was one).