> Memes that were able to help minds survive
> that house a favorable environment for the memes
> themselves survive would be at an advantage to
> memes that were not able to do this. Also memes
> that were able to kill off minds that would destroy
> them would also be at an advantage over memes that
> were unable to do this.

>
> Unlike most genes, memes easily leap from
> person to person without a new body
> being reproduced every time. The net result
> of this is that an unfit meme can take over
> what is just a shrinking population, killing
> in a cancerous way. Like the independently
> segregating but dependently selected "selfish
> genes" (which remain predicated on Hamilton's
> oversimplified i.e. deletion of a critical
> theory constant, model) cancerous selfish
> cells and selfish memes cannot be
> independently selected. This means that a
> gene, a cell or a meme must increase the
> total number of fertile forms reproduced
> per parent per population (which I define
> as Total Darwinian Fitness TDF), in order
> to be selected for. ...