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Keith:
>PS. A *lot* of meme replication is driven by attention rewards.

Interesting observation. I also have stumbled upon this issue previously and I too regard the reward-pathway as the `engine' for both biological and cultural evolution:

http://cfpm.org/~majordom/memetics/2000/6056.html
 

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