“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” ^[1]

 ”We are vehicles for our DNA, we are hosts for DNA parasites which are our genes.” ^[1]

“[A] human being is the creation of two selfish replicators, genes and memes, working together…” ^[2]

“Human consciousness is a huge complex of memes, and a person is an ape infested with memes.” ^[3]

“God is a collective memetic organism. Such organisms influence large numbers of people to behave as a grouCopies in the minds of individual human beings work together the way a multi-celled animal’s component cells do…” ^[4]

1. Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. [↩] [↩]
2. Blackmore, Susan. “The Meme and I.” New Scientist. 13 March 199 [↩]
3. Dennet, Daniel [↩]
4. “God wants you dead.” http://www.transhuman.ai [↩]