Precisely. :)
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gnufuu@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sometimes a gardener invents a word and scientists make it useful by redefining it. See “meme”.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
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gnufuu@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sometimes a gardener invents a word and scientists make it useful by redefining it. See “meme”.
Precisely. :)
Klear@piefed.world 1 month ago
Are you calling Dawkins a gardener and 4chan scientists?
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Isn’t rather “meme” the refinement from “gene” (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sort of, but I’m not sure refinement is the right word. It is meant to allude to genes. Memes are to culture as genes are to biological evolution.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Imagine a putnam square of bucket walrus and cheezburger cat, and by some recessive trait magic you wind up with loss