Original sentence: Malcolm Gladwell wrote, "A meme is an idea that behaves like a virus--that moves through a population, taking hold in each person it infects
Edited sentence: : Here is the HYPOTHESIS:.Here we see how this idea is hard to prove.In other words, it is believed that consciousness may arise from interactions of neurons in a person's brain but even this remains unknown at present.Malcolm Gladwell -- a journalist, not a scientist qualified to assess the validity of such a wildly unproved concept-- wrote, "A meme is an idea that behaves like a virus--that moves through a population, taking hold in each person it infects.Memetic theory, however, postulates:.No one has ever proved what consciousness is, or what its relationship is to a person's biology.Therefore, if we don't know how the mind works how can one know how ideas spread from one person to another