Memes are self-replicating concepts (given you have enough humans to spread them). Highly capable minds are different as they contain predictive models of: world, self, and others. This allows them to manipulate both objects in the world, and other people to fulfill their needs. Since memes don’t have these capacities, and even though they are related to human behavior, they should not be accounted as the cause of human behavior. Even if the best way to explain human behavior is through memes, they don’t necessarily account of most of the decision-making process.
[In my opinion]
Memes are self-replicating concepts (given you have enough humans to spread them). Highly capable minds are different as they contain predictive models of: world, self, and others. This allows them to manipulate both objects in the world, and other people to fulfill their needs. Since memes don’t have these capacities, and even though they are related to human behavior, they should not be accounted as the cause of human behavior. Even if the best way to explain human behavior is through memes, they don’t necessarily account of most of the decision-making process.
[/In my opinion]