### 🧬 **Memetic Theory**

Richard Dawkins (who coined “meme” in *The Selfish Gene*, 1976) meant it as a “unit of cultural transmission” — like a gene, but for ideas.

Just as genes propagate through reproduction, memes propagate through communication.

From that lens, a viral meme is like a **self-replicating cultural organism**. It doesn’t have magic powers, but it leverages human cognition and network structures to **instantiate new realities** through coordinated belief and behavior.

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