The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends by J. -F. Gariépy

Author:J. -F. Gariépy [Gariépy, J. -F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-07T08:00:00+00:00

However, Richard Dawkins himself could see that these two problems led to an impasse: either the list of problems is incomplete, and there is some third, undiscovered problem for the phenotype, or there are some phenotypic machines that are indeed subject to natural selection, like replicators. The prime example given by Richard Dawkins in support of the latter conclusion is human culture—as we have pointed out before, memes do make copies of themselves. They are not part of the qreamplex.

Were it just for these two problems, it would seem that human culture, or memes, can indeed be characterized as an independent replicator, just as Richard Dawkins intimated. Memes have solved the problem of forgetfulness in that the useful information they carry gets preserved as they copy themselves from brain to brain. Similarly, memes have solved the problem of the naked warrior because they jump from one organism to the other. As long as there are new brains to invade, they will not face the problem of the naked warrior. And up to now, we have not identified a criterion that would keep memes from being treated as a replicator subject to natural selection, leaving us stuck at the same point as every thinker in memetics over the last few decades.

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