On Memetics

In computer science, filtering and sorting are big topics. Donald Knuth devoted volume 3 of his epic The Art Of Computer Programming to the...

I've long been interesed in the idea that acquired sexual characteristics can be inherited - as part of my more general interest in Lama...

I think most proponents of cultural evolution acceot the idea that it has a Lamarckian component. I have writen about the topic before - e.g...

Another claim in the recent Creanzaa, Kolodny and Feldman document ( Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters ) ...

Creanzaa, Kolodny and Feldman have a recent document out titled: Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters . It h...

It's frustrating:: critics keep repeating the same long-debunked objections to memetics. Jerry Coyne is one of the latest to raise the...

Here is Dennett on machine intelligence. It seems to be one of the areas where I have philospohical disagreements with him: Dennett argues t...

Richard Dawkins gets asked if his views on memetics have changed since 1976 - and what he thinks of "temes". To start the 3 minute...

Proponents of memetics have often used it to criticise positions they disagree with as being just a bunch of virulent memes. Dawkins did thi...

In the symbiont hypothesis of eusociality, symbionts manipulate their hosts into coming into close contact in toder to facilitate their own...