Selfish Replicators

June 23, 2006 | Share/Save

"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." - Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, http://www.arn.org/docs/johnson/pj_robotrebellion.htm)

"We are vehicles for our DNA, we are hosts for DNA parasites which are our genes." - The World of Richard Dawkins

… a human being is the creation of two selfish replicators, genes and memes, working together…" - Susan Blackmore, "The Meme and I," New Scientist, 13 March 1999

"Human consciousness is a huge complex of memes, and a person is an ape infested with memes." - Daniel Dennett

"God is a collective memetic organism. Such organisms influence large numbers of people to behave as a group. Copies in the minds of individual human beings work together the way a multi-celled animal's component cells do…" - "God wants you dead," http://www.transhumani.ai