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Memetics and the evolution of memes
Immortality through memes, not genes!
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Basic Info| Name: | Immortality through memes, not genes |
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| Description: | Memes, memetics, and the evolution of said |
AboutMemetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme.
Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" to refer to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another. According to Dawkins, examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene .
Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" to refer to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another. According to Dawkins, examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene .
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100 monkeys, abnormal psychology, abnormality, adaptation, advertisements, advertising, behavioral psychology, biology, blink, branding, cognitive dissonance, commercials, concepts, cultural evolution, etymology, fairy tales, genes, genetic inheritance, hundredth monkey effect, media, memes, memetics, metaculture, no logo, obscure trivia, pop culture, pop psychology, psychology, scientific method, self-referentialism, social engineering, sociobiology, sociology, subcultures, tipping point, trivia, urban legends, voodoo science, weltanschauung, world-views, zeitgeist
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