…Lives. Ed. G.Watson, S.Batchelor and G.Claxton; London, Rider, 112-122. Also available in Italian and French at http://zenmontpellier.multimania.com/Meme.html http://zenmontpellier.multimania.com/Memes.html. Also re-published on the SAND Website, 23 April 2019. Blackmore,S.J. 1991 Beyond…
…Day-to-day Lives. Ed. G.Watson, S.Batchelor and G.Claxton; London, Rider, 112-122. Also available in Italian and French at http://zenmontpellier.multimania.com/Meme.html http://zenmontpellier.multimania.com/Memes.html Blackmore,S.J. 1991 Beyond the Self: The Escape from Reincarnation. In: Buddhism…
Natural selection applies to everything
…feature on “Meme Wars” and is a response to Adam Kuper’s article entitled “Evolution cannot explain culture” Adam Kuper provides a wonderful example of a thriving memeplex in the rituals…
memes. This coevolution of memes and genes is a two-way process. Genes influence memes because they build the copying machinery of the human body and brain. But memes influence genes…
to understanding memes in business and organisations, includes extracts from my work. Paper on memes in science Kuhn et al 2014 Inheritance patterns in citation networks reveal scientific memes A…
…kind of information) from person to person, we are dealing in memes. The ‘meme’ meme emerged from the theory of Universal Darwinism; the idea that when any information is copied,…
Testing memes: The Beethoven Experiment
Testing memes The Beethoven Experiment Among the many criticisms of memetics is the repeated accusation that the theory is circular – that what makes a good meme is that it…
brains and behaviour. Understanding this point is critical for avoiding some of the confusions into which memetics can fall. Among the many criticisms of memetics are that memes have not…
Three entries for the Oxford Companion to the Body
the most altruistic people and so their memes get more chances to spread, including their altruistic memes. These are testable ideas which might, in the future, allow memetics to be…
is that memes (including words) are replicators; they can compete with each other and with other replicators in both memetic evolution and meme-gene co-evolution. This contrasts with some other theories…