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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
For the most blatant example, spread of the religion seems to pretty obviously been a goal given that preaching started pretty much immediately after the religion's creation. Fashion designers generally want their designs to become popular; so do public musicians want their music to be liked by people.
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It's not enough to count as proto-memetics to have an objective. There has to be a detailed plan for achieving that objective. If there was such a plan then after the dust settles you could evaluate how well the methods of that plan worked.
This would be science though perhaps with a lower-case "s". Or at least something like science. Historically any sort of detailed plan is rare and ones that survived contact with reality are rarer.