{"id":77,"date":"2004-06-10T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2004-06-10T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T20:11:50","slug":"fun-with-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/fun-with-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to make sure I had the use of the word &#8220;meme&#8221; correct, so I did a quick <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=meme\">dictionary search<\/a>. The second definition has an interesting point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas<br \/>\ncan evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some<br \/>\nideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through,<br \/>\nfor example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to<br \/>\nproduce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans<br \/>\n(and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts)<br \/>\ncultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become<br \/>\nmore important than biological evolution by selection of<br \/>\nhereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for<br \/>\ntolerably obvious reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to make sure I had the use of the word &#8220;meme&#8221; correct, so I did a quick dictionary search. The second definition has an interesting point. Memes can <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/fun-with-definitions\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}