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Cultural Confusion

Reviews 21 July 2006

…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…


Short Biography

19 May 2006

Short Bio Dr. Susan Blackmore Dr Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, writer, and lecturer known for her contributions to the study of consciousness, memes, and extraordinary human experiences. Born in…


Full Biography

25 March 2002

Who am I? Dr. Susan Blackmore   Dr Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, writer, and lecturer known for her contributions to the study of consciousness, memes, and extraordinary human experiences….


Living without free will

Chapters 22 February 2013

…wish to be free of the illusion, I am not. References Blackmore, S. (1999) The Meme Machine, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press Blackmore, S. (2000) Memes and the…


Giving up ghosts and gods

Chapters 3 February 2009

…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…


THES Soapbox

Journalism 25 March 2002

…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,…


THES Speaking Volumes

Journalism 25 March 2002

…of ape infested with memes. So that is who I am. As I lay in bed and struggled with “memes” I began to see the world in a different way….


Why I have given up

Chapters 25 March 2002

…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…


Dear human race, Happy Valentine’s Day!

Journalism 14 February 2004

…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…


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