selfish genes and selfish memes

WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THIS THING WE CALL LIFE? A question asked since the beginning of conscious thought or maybe even longer, a question that could only be answered by perhaps the dead, (with whom there is no scientific way of proving that they are even contactable yet). A question that it could also be argued is one that everybody at some stage has asked him or herself? This question however, is a question …

…continue life? So perhaps believing there is some existence of a soul in all of us is nothing more than a romantic illusion created by our very own genes or more likely memes which in doing so have ensured the continuation of themselves. Whatever the answers are to the ever alluding questions, one thing is for sure and that is that, SURE, WE ARE SMART BUT LIFE IS SMARTER!! REFERENCES: Dawkins, R. (1976) The Selfish Gene.