Is there much empirical evidence in support of the existence of memes?
I feel that ideas do self-replicate and are subject to evolutionary forces
and that much of human conscious experience is driven by something akin to
what we're calling "memes", but... I think I accept that view on the
strength of other peoples' arguments rather than on the basis of evidence.
If there's not much empirical eveidence to support memetic theories- and
it'd be difficult to dig any up if evidence would rely on how prevalent an
idea was in the population or in a single mind- then maybe one of the
prerequisites for membership of this list is that you /aren't/ rational. By
this definition of rational. And assuming that everyone doesn't just jump up
with masses of evidence in response to this post.
MG