Memes; the missing piece of the human puzzle

This is the information I was expecting. I have mentioned in previous blogs that as humans, we are not doing what is best for our genes. Finally I got an answer...

With humans, and the development of culture. New things were replicated and didnt have anything to do with genetics. That's where memes come into place. They are the corresponding to genes, that pass on ideas, songs, fashion, etc. from one brain to another.

This is the reason why humans don't focus that much on genes. (That is, follow their instincts, and yet I am not saying that humans are not instinctive.) Since our brains, and our minds dominate our actions. We have different prospects in life. That is to replicate our ideas, etc. in the meme pool.

Memes are the ones that mold our lives. For example God. It was implanted, or 'mutated' on individual humans life way back in history. Now, a vast majority of the people believe in the existence of a God, or at least gods.

Religion indeed regulates the way in which we live. And therefore, memes, in humans are far more influential than genes. This is also because memes are able to 'replicate' faster than genes do and create an impact quicker, on more people.

This makes me wonder about the power we have as humans against nature and 'stability' on it. By the way, i say stability because it is the way in which things have worked quite well. Doing it differently is more likely to bring chaos to the system as I've mentioned in my previous blogs.

I am glad to know that Dawkins accepts the differences in humans. like he says on the last paragraph, that "we are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators". (pg. 201)

This means that we are overthrowing the stability. And as we are able to end with the tyranny of our replicators. We will do the same as we gain full power. The fact that we are so different than other animals, and that we are able to alter nature for our own benefit. (as Freud mentions on "El Malestar en la Culura".) Makes us dangerous and unstoppable.

(By the way,I'm still worried by the destiny of humanity...)