0 a cultural feature or a type of behaviour that is passed from one generation to another, without the influence of genes:
1 an idea, image, video, etc. that is spread very quickly on the internet:
Each mind has only a limited ability for the support of memes; therefore, there is considerable 'competition' among memes for entry into as many minds as possible.
According to this account, then, the concept-wielding mind is a kind of social construction, brought into existence through the absorption of memes from the surrounding culture.
Similarly, human beings do not create or adopt cultural variants (or memes) at random, because past phylogenetic and developmental processes, including past learning, inform these creative and selective processes.
Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success.
Thinking is an ever-creative process; no two instantiations of a meme are ever the same.
With respect to memetics, the authors are bothered by the lack of a clear definition of a meme.
Dawkins' meme has a peculiar but powerful role to play in our understanding of the human culture.
Meme's first self-titled disc was released in the summer of 2010.
