On Memetics

Why groups form is a basic question in sociobiology. Biologists recognise a number of common reasons why groups form - which include: R...

I've witten a number of articles about parasitic mind control . I have also promoted the symbiont hypothesis of eusociality . I didn...

Dennett of the hijacking of the term "meme", the "De-Darwinization" of cultural evolution, memes as "virtual mach...

One piece of symbiology terminology that seems to be missing refers to the idea of host fitness being compromised by the lack of important s...

One fairly prominent critic of "chemical evolution" was the late A. G. Cairns-Smith . He devoted a substantial section at the star...

In 2011, I stressed the positive side of virtue signalling, writing : "Signalling must often be costly to be effective." Costly si...

Some people have a larger load of memes than others. While different memes affect their hosts in different ways, the fact that many memes ha...

Probably most of the interactions between political correctness and science come in areas where I don't really have much of a stake. Mos...

The terms " viral load " and " parasite load " exist, and I feel there is a significant need for corresponding memetic t...