This strange idea of mindless informational things that provoke coalitions of rebellious neurons to support them, the idea of memes infecting brains, will take several chapters to articulate and defend.44 Here I am pointing out that if anything like that invasion happened, it would no doubt involve a coevolutionary process in which human brains—the only brains so far seriously infected with memes—were selected for handling memes, sheltering them and aiding in their reproduction, in much the way fig trees have coevolved with the parasitic wasps who return the favor by helping pollinate the fig
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