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No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head
Found : No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head ALBANY, N.Y. – Unexpected and insidious, the earworm slinks its way into the brain and refuses to leave. Symptoms vary, although high levels of annoyance and frustration are common. There … Continue reading
Meme Controversies, God and Blending
Found : Meme Controversies, God and Blending Two leaders in the field of memetics are Henry Plotkin and Richard Dawkins. They both agree that memes differ from genes in at least one major way: Memes do not replicate physically, and … Continue reading
Intolerant memes
Found : Intolerant memes Meme theorists believe that a body in a stressed out and weakened condition is more susceptible to infection, whether it be by germs or memes. Two factors have increased humanity's susceptibility. One is the problems in … Continue reading
Sharks in the Meme Pool
Found : Sharks in the Meme Pool Memes can produce actual physical sensations. For example, the "God meme" is powerful not only because it has "great psychic appeal" as Dawkins says, (by which he means it economizes thought, explaining many … Continue reading
Okay, but exactly `who' would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators?
Found : Okay, but exactly `who’ would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators? At the end of the day who would escape the tyranny of the replicators? To escape the tyranny of memes we should surely have to lose the … Continue reading
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Tagged dawkins, dualism, Found, genetics, memetics, paradox
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The medieval church, heresy and memes
Found : The medieval church, heresy and memes I find it a little ironic that the conceptualization of ideas as infectious diseases dates back far beyond The Selfish Gene. In fact, one of the first notable observations of this ideology … Continue reading
God Wants You Dead
Found : God Wants You Dead 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 … Continue reading
Mutation, Selection, And Vertical Transmission Of Theistic Memes In Religious Canons
Found : Mutation, Selection, And Vertical Transmission Of Theistic Memes In Religious Canons A study of ancient and modern Near Eastern religious canons reveals the mutation, selection, and vertical transmission of fitness-enhancing textual units, defined as theistic memes. The earliest … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Found, memes, memetics, religion, sociology, theory
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