>
> 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.
>
> It does not matter what Darwinian sub
> part you choose, the only way that
> it can be selected for empirically is
> via an increase in TDF (which presents
> the only falsifiable fitness maximand
> that we have).