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-(pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by [Dawkins|DawkinsRichard], by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. ([Wheelis|WheelisMark], quoted in [Hofstadter|HofstadterDouglas].) 
+(pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by [Dawkins|DawkinsRichard], by analogy with "gene".)   
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+!"The new soup is the soup of the human culture. We need a name fro this new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of cultural transmission, or unit of [imitation]. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word me^me. It should be pronounce to rhyme with 'cream' " (the selfish gene, Richard Dawkins, 1976)   
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+Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. ([Wheelis|WheelisMark], quoted in [Hofstadter|HofstadterDouglas].) 
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 See also: [meme-complex].