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Daniel Dennett: It's Evolution Baby

Decoding the Gurus

CHAPTER

The Parallelism of Memetics

Dan O'Brien: I agree with the general principle of memes. They exist for reasons, but they're not necessarily beneficial to the people that host them. But again, here it feels a little bit to me like there is a distinction here to draw because something like a gut worm is different than something like a catchy song. So yeah, I guess I'm agreeing with you. You just have to be careful with analogies, but I don't know if he would.

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