Reasoned by analogy, we present the theory of memes . The modern theory of memetics (memes) is all about explaining why we behave as we do. Based on a cultural analog of the biological gene, it has quite a large following among professional researchers – mostly in the social sciences. Let’s look at it more closely. Warning: Be skeptical, knowing this is currently a big time theory. Yet no evidence and no observations! For reason by analogy see http://used-ideas.blogspot.com/2012/07/rasoning-by-analogy.html ______________ The theory of memetics , or theory of memes, dating from the recent 1989 book, The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, proposes the rapid increase of social structure is a consequence of a culture or system (memes) of behaviors that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another. They have been likened to biological genes. In his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge , which elaborates upon the fundamental role of memes in uni
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