…people that he has solved one of the greatest problems in the science of consciousness. Dr Susan Blackmore Psychologist and writer. Author of The Meme Machine and Consciousness: An Introduction….
…people that he has solved one of the greatest problems in the science of consciousness. Dr Susan Blackmore Psychologist and writer. Author of The Meme Machine and Consciousness: An Introduction….
…single footnote as ‘highly speculative literature’. There are certainly problems with the whole idea of memes (Aunger 2000, Blackmore 1999), but at least memetics takes seriously the idea that the…
Brief Bio Dr. Susan Blackmore Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, lecturer and writer best known for her book The Meme Machine (1999) and the textbook Consciousness: An Introduction (4th Edition…
…dangerous meme, or because people of faith fight over competing gods? Not really. Although I have written about all of these reasons and many more, my own reasons for disbelief…
…by natural selection for the survival of our genes and memes; here for no reason at all other than the dictates of chance and necessity, and unable to contact or…
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…are copied. These human creations are called memes, and are passed between us in the same way that viruses spread by becoming parasites. Take the evolution of the humble Valentine’s…
…A few million years ago our ancestors let loose a new evolutionary process. By learning to imitate each other they unwittingly created the first memes. Those memes – the habits,…
and determination, although it is trained in a completely different way. Unlike the memeplexes of religion, the memeplex of science includes methods for systematically doubting and testing its own claims…
Creative Evolution: From genes and memes to a technological takeover
are meme machines, adopting and recombining old memes to make new ones. And what comes next? There may be a third replicator in our midst; digital information in the cloud….