Fabulous point.

Razib,

When are you going to get a doctorate so you can get a job writing philosophy of science? You'd be better than Popper or Kuhn.

It doesn't strike me that memes will be thought of as anything more concrete than 'patterns of information', which are generally what genes are too, but without any well defined rules of transmission.

It's my intuition that memetics can be useful, but I'm having difficulty coming up with a convincing argument.