about memes. See also Links to other useful sites and Sue Blackmore’s publications on memes. Books on memes Aunger, R.A. (Ed) (2000) Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a…
about memes. See also Links to other useful sites and Sue Blackmore’s publications on memes. Books on memes Aunger, R.A. (Ed) (2000) Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a…
Response to review of The Meme Machine
of memetics is to apply this same insight to memes rather than genes, and so to understand how human culture and creativity come about. We humans copy masses of memes,…
and discussions, with meditation sessions and mindfulness exercises, designed to help make it easier to wake up from the meme dream. For background reading see Waking from the Meme Dream…
Darwin and Humanity : Can we rid the mind of God?
intellectually challenged. But the God meme doesn’t have to compete on its own, it comes as part of a package, a vast memeplex called a religion. A memeplex is a…
Dawkins’s Meme: Why is there still no science of memetics?
Dawkins’s Meme: Why is there still no science of memetics? European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidleberg,October 2006 Dawkins’s meme is thirty years old this year – a brilliant idea that unifies…
Meme machines and consciousness
is a memeplex; a group of memes that propagate together. This selfplex is the origin of ordinary human consciousness. Therefore, only systems capable of imitation (and hence of sustaining memetic…
The Evolution of Meme Machines – Russian Translation
Эволюция меметических машин Translated from ‘The Evolution of Meme Machines’ Presented at the International Congress on Ontopsychology and Memetics, Milan May 18-21 2002 for the magazine “New Ontopsychology” This translation…
The meme’s eye view of language
ancestors became capable of imitating sounds, a new replicator was let loose and memes (information copied between people with variation and selection) began to compete with genes. These memes then…
genes’ response, requiring generations of people to act on, would always lag far behind the memetic developments. I call the process by which memes control gene selection “memetic drive”: memes…
Dawkins’ Meme Brighton Science Festival 2006
own right. He calls them “memes”. Taking the meme’s eye view transforms our understanding of mind, brain and human nature – and gives a scary view of our future evolution….