The evolution of meme machines
The evolution of meme machines Exeter Complexity Network 2 June 2004 Abstract We humans are meme machines. So are printing presses, telephones, photocopiers, computers and web servers. Memes are habits,…
The evolution of meme machines
The evolution of meme machines Exeter Complexity Network 2 June 2004 Abstract We humans are meme machines. So are printing presses, telephones, photocopiers, computers and web servers. Memes are habits,…
There is a second replicator; ideas, skills and habits compete to be copied and evolve in their own right. He calls them “memes”. Taking the meme’s eye view transforms our…
The Loo Roll Meme Do you, like me, spend too much time in anonymous hotels? If so you will have noticed the peculiar fact that when you go into your…
…book. Read Reviews by John Maynard Smith, Matt Ridley, Uri Geller, Martin Gardner, Simon Ings and many others. The Meme Machine has been translated into 18 other languages. See Translations…
lectures, and met a remarkable number of people who are interested in memes and memetics. I previously had no idea that there were so many meme-enthusiasts there. I lectured at…
author of The Electric Meme , and editor of Darwinizing Culture . He has conducted ethnographic research on meme transmission in central Africa. Blackmore, Susan is author of The Meme…
…the basic principles of memetics, show how memes could have driven human evolution, and consider some of these questions along the way. The new replicator Taking the meme’s eye view…
Memes and Meditation – a weekend retreat
use the idea of memes in our practice. Seeing our thoughts as memes can weaken their power; understanding ourselves as memeplexes can undermine our clinging to the fantasy of a…
to be copied again. Large groups of memes that are copied and passed on together are called co-adapted meme complexes, or memeplexes. The word “meme” has recently been included in…
Memes shape brains shape memes
the idea that language is an evolving organism, and that brain capacities shape language by influencing the fitness of memes, although memetics also claims that memes in turn shape brains….