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A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links.
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This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes. A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. Since...A comprehensive bibliography of Memetics and related topics.
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alt.memetics bibliography Additions are still welcome. Also, there is lots of room in this directory for valuable information (excerpts, abstracts, annotations, etc to be hyperlinked to the bibliography. Mail to David McFadzean. These fine persons helped compose the list so far. Memetics...Includes texts by Dr Susan Blackmore and links to other articles online.
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UK Memes Central Central has moved to http www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/index.htm. Visit our Visit the Meme Lab Command Bunker Meme Links Texts Extract from Human Nature Review 2002 Volume 2: 454-462 (17 October) Essay Review Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon of The Electric...The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical phrase, or even a single note?
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Structure of memes The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a...A virtual community for bright people who love memetics.
http://memes.org
Presents a memetic framework for the analysis of policy making based on three concepts from evolutionary theory: interaction, replication, and lineage.
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1997/vol1/speel_h-c.html
FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, "Virus of the Mind".)
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Meme Central Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource Search this site param name textcolor value...Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography.
http://aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/
Discussions of the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer, with focus on creativity, memes, replicators, language, ideas, evolution, computers, viruses, knowledge, artificial intelligence, brain and the mind.
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Memetic Scienc: General Introduction Minds a reason for inquiry The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, Richard Dawkins. Thought Contagion How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch. Virus of the Mind The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie. Additional Readings Journal...Collection of philosophical essays on memetics and the evolution of culture.
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articles on memes Understanding the science of memetics What is a Meme? Meme talk is becoming common, but many people do not really know what a meme is. This short article offers a tangible definition, and predicts where future research might take us....Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how.
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Cultural Software Cultural Software: NONE NONE Cultural Software...Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end their agnosticism on this matter. To that purpose he has written an exposition of neuromemetics called The Electric Meme.
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Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon Send a response to this article Search the web for related items Contact the Editors Human Nature Review 2002 Volume 2: 454-462 (17 October) URL of this document http human-nature.com/nibbs/02/benzon.html Essay Review Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon The...The home page of the open source Memento project - a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics.
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Memento project homepage Memento is a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics, the theory of memes. Use it to store what you've learnt, and publish what you know just like a weblog. And naturally, to facilitate distribution of the...Internet review in Russian publication on memes, mind viruses and mind epidemics.
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email Internet 25 www.consillieri.ru x 11 Internet consillieri POLITECH 1 10...A detailed site maintained by the psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore.
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Dr Susan Blackmore Interview about my life and death in the Mail on Sunday, 7 August 2005, also quoted in The Times Body Soul, 13 August: We are just evolving creatures in the midst of a pointless universe. I take illegal drugs for...Information about the book by Robert Aunger.
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The Electric Meme Background Table of Contents Chapter Excerpts Reviews About the Author Web Bonus! Last updated 8/20/2002...The text that started off the science of memetics.
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``Memes, The New Replicators Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves...Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission.
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Journal of Memetics Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission The existing papers will continue to be freely accessible at this site. However, there are plans for the journal to be relaunched at www.jom-emit.org. Last Issue Retropectives and Prospects on 8 years of JoM-EMIT and Memetics Index of all full...Symposium on the Net
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a e c s y m p o s i u m Tijen the symposium on the Net is the basis and preparation for the real symposium at the Ars Electronica Festival 96. it takes place in two areas the Statement and Reference Room reserved for the keynote/statements of the invited participants,...Explanation of memetics by analogy of computers.
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How can we die if we do not exist? A new word is in our language The word meme pronounced meem has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, with the definition A self-replicating element of culture, passed on by imitation The term was first used in 1976 by...A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria.
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Memetics My masters thesis was entitled: The Viral Aspects of Language: A quantitative Research of Memetic Selection Criteria. In this project I was guided by my promotor Prof. dr. Francis Heylighen. In october 2004 I started working as a phd researcher...The neobiological model iindicates that all living systems, genetic and memetic belong to the realm of biology, ethetics is the field which encompasses all self-perpetuating algorithmic structures, including genetics and memetics.
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NeoBiology And Ethetics A powerful new way of viewing Life Your browser does not support script, this website is javascript dependant, you'll be able to view the paper using the page links, but that is all. THE CONTENT OF THIS PAPER IS NOW OUT-OF-DATE. THE UP-TO-DATE CONTENT CAN BE FOUND...Debate on memes between Aaron Lynch and Richard Barbrook.
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