On Memetics
Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution
Friday, 28 June 2013
Google's meme team
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Google is saying on its web site that it has assembled a "meme team": To get to the bottom of these memes, we assembled a team ...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Eumemics
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Much as eugenics is the art and science improving human genes in the gene pool, eumemics is art and science of improving the memes in the m...
Memetic codes
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Tied in with the recently-discussed issue of what counts as genotype and what counts as phenotype in cultural evolution is the issue of wha...
Richard Dawkins - Just for Hits
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Dawkins gives a brief lecture on memes - that disintegrates into a psychedelic light show five minutes in. He seems to claim that inter...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Memeophiles vs memeophobes
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Memes seem to polarise people. Some people like them - others hate them. The meme lovers are memeophiles - the meme haters are memeophob...
Dawkins on memes at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase
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Dawkins introducing memes in 2013 - before performing at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase. There's are more, lo...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Memes are cool
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OK, I risk stating the obvious here, but: memes are cool. By this I mostly mean that memes are cool to the younger generation - the kids w...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Blending inheritance is an oxymoron
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Blending inheritance is a traditional topic in the study of the history of evolutionary theory. The story goes that it was thought that th...
Pseudomemes
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In the organic realm, there are pseudogenes - which are genes that are no longer expressed. This naturally raises the question of whether t...
Monday, 17 June 2013
The excesses of externalism
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While I've written about the problems with internalism , so far, I haven't written much about the Benzon / Gatherer position on cu...
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