9-4b2b0 Memes are subject to conscious variation and selection, and can be rejected intentionally, whereas genes are random and can’t be rejected.

Related:

• Memes are faster than genes

  • 1-1b Memes are more powerful than genes because they can out-evolve them
  • 1-2g1c Memes beat genes. We will see what cannot be seen with new knowledge and new technology.
  • 9-4b2a2 Memes can be transmitted from anyone to anyone
  • 9-4b2c You can host multiple memes both consequentially or simultaneously during your lifetime. A gene in contrast can be hosted only once per life-cycle.
  • 9-4b3b1 Popper - ‘We let our ideas die in our place’ (another difference between memes vs genes)

• 13-1a3a1e Money puts back memes to the game genes were playing—to the game of survival

• 10-2f3a2 There can only be enough overlap of meanings between any entities (e.g., individual, group, society, theory, reality) — ‘ゆらぎ’revisit