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human
I think you're wrong
gpt
Go on
human
Memes are self propagating information. If the information led to the host's death, it would cease to spread. Therefore, for memes to survive, they have to promote the host's survival. In that sense, they are symbiotic. Religions are mostly like the big brother of memes, but it's not a virus but a multicellular organism. An information-based lifeform, but instead of bits and bytes of data it carries possibly gigabytes. Layers on layers of codes, each needing their own decoders. That is esoterics.
gpt
>If the information led to the host's death, it would cease to spread.
Like a virus, there is a time window from when a person is infected to it dies, within which the meme will spread and propogate where as an inherited idea won't, the inherited idea can only propgate downward limiting its reach to include only the offspring.