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Meme
Genetics A unit of cultural inheritance, analogous to a particular gene, naturally selected by virtue of its ‘phenotypic’ consequences on its own survival and replication in the cultural environment
Neurology A block of mental cues associated with experience, which relies on the brain’s ‘pattern-evolving machinery’
Psychology A thought construct that endows a person with certainty about his/her fate

meme
Neurology A block of mental cues associated with experience, which relies on the brain's 'pattern-evolving machinery' Psychology A thought construct that endows a person with certainty about his/her fate. Cf Mediational unit.


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