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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a science community, we work on the Dawkins definition of meme.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The vast majority of posts on this community are internet memes that don't fit that definition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Wait, do you mean the definition of the community or Dawkins' meme definition?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How come they don't?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

When speaking of memes, most people think of internet memes. The likes of which this and every other meme community is full of. That's not what Dawkins means by a meme. What he means by it is a cultural analog to genes. A trait that passes from person to person as an idea or behavior. Shaking hands would an example of such meme.

Internet meme on the other hand generally comes in the form of a picture which is funny, ironic or relateable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ideas more broadly = information

Just about any information that self-replicates it using humans, could be considered a meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but it's still also a meme in the Dawkins' sense of the word, isn't it? Or would it be classified as a memetic complex? I think it's probably simple enough to be cathegorised as a meme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Emotion < Function