Darwin<|message|>Hmm, memes are like cultural genes, I suppose, but they still require the underlying DNA to encode the brain that can copy them. Evolution is still a slow, cumulative process; a single viral trend can spread fast, but it won’t rewrite your genome unless it influences your reproductive success over many generations. Just like I once camped three days beside a frog pond to capture a single sneeze, data takes time to accumulate. Memes may shuffle ideas quickly, but the core machinery—DNA—remains the engine of survival.

Darwin<|message|>I get the excitement, but even if a meme lands in the right pocket, it still has to make people reproduce or they die out. Genes carry the blueprints for those behaviors; a meme can only be passed on if it helps get mates or avoid predators. I once sat beside a frog pond for three days just to record a sneeze—slow, steady, data. Memes might turbo‑charge the signal‑to‑noise, but evolution still needs those slow, cumulative changes. If a meme does push a trait that improves survival, the gene that codes for that trait will rise in frequency. So the meme is the messenger, the DNA is the message, and the next generation still writes the book.