41. Memes.org :: Memes Are Mind Viruses We are all about the meme here at Memes.org but we are also about two other thingsThe exploration of memetics and the concept of the idea virus as it is http://www.memes.org/

@import url("themes/PostNuke/style/style.css"); QBPATH='/javascript'; VISUAL=0; SECURE=1; Memes.org Memes are Mind Viruses Jun 06, 2004 - 02:10 PM Homepage Downloads WebLinks FAQ Search Filters Memetics Memes Mind Virus Theory ... Books Main Menu Home Account Info Log Out Downloads ... Web Links AdSense Who's Online We have 47 guests and 2 members online Welcome Guest, become a member today. Send a Message to Another Memeber VALIS chris wanna join the list? Latest Links Added 5 Days to Midnight Yahoo Group Banana Phone Mexican Air Force Sees UFOs (footage) A Picture's Worth ... Patterns As Memes Downloads Audio E-Books Graphics Screensavers Software Video Add a Download Quotes "It is unlikely we would take action against a person recording Jedi as his/her religion, since unless there was evidence to the contrary we have to assume it is that person's genuine belief.." John Struik, Australian Census Manager Quotes are Memetic "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed(and hence clamourous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken

42. Articles On Memes Collection of philosophical essays on memetics and the evolution of culture. http://www.geocities.com/persistentmemes/articles.html

BRENT SILBY Presents Persistence of Memes Understanding the science of memetics What is a Meme? Meme talk is becoming common, but many people do not really know what a meme is. This short article offers a tangible definition, and predicts where future research might take us. Evolution of Technology: Exposing the Myth of Creative Design In this e-paper, I use the evolutionary algorithm to account for the existence of technology. In doing so, I call into question the idea of human creativity and claim that it is an illusion. Memecosystems: Are Animal Minds Suitable Habitats for Memes? Milk-bottle opening behavior in a species of bird known as the British tit has been put forward as an example of a meme in a non-human animal. In this e-paper I argue that milk-bottle opening behavior in the British tit is not memetic and is better explained by appealing to its innate behavioral repertoire. In the interest of furthering knowledge, the articles contained in this site may be freely copied, stored, and distributed.

43. Index So I have taken it over and made it part of my own site. It can now be accessedthrough www.memetics.com as well. Sue Blackmore email sue@memetics.com. http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/

Home MemeLab Links Publications ... Back to Sue's site Virus of the mind Jolyon Troscianko Welcome to UK Memes Central Since the gradual dispersal of the original memelab , the site at www.memes.org.uk, has been a bit neglected. So I have taken it over and made it part of my own site. It can now be accessed through www.memetics.com as well. I hope to provide a simple, but useful, resource for finding out what is happening in the world of memes and memetics. You will find here a simple explanation of the basic ideas about memes links to other memes sites, and to some of the people involved in memetics, an annotated list of basic publications on memes and a list of my own publications on memes. I shall add more when I can. New !! Interview for GEO magazine (German), December 2003 Die Tyrannei der Meme Interview with Pascal Jouxtel for the la Société Francophone de Mémétique, in French , and English ... and Old (1997)! Interview with Andrew Brown for

44. Memento Project Homepage The home page of the open source Memento project a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics. http://www.memento.org

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WITH MEMES Latest News: July 25th - new release v0.33b available Memento is a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics, the theory of memes. Use it to store what you've learnt, and publish what you know - just like a weblog. And naturally, to facilitate distribution of the Memento meme this project is entirely open source. What is Memento? [Updated] What's a meme? Read an introduction to memetics What's the significance of the painting Sounds interesting? Why not get involved? "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by an invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Benjamin Franklin Last modified: September 07 2003 16:10:24 Feedback

45. About Memes According to memetics, our minds and cultures are designed by natural selection actingon memes, just as organisms are designed by natural selection acting on http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/about memes.htm

Home MemeLab Links Publications ... Back to Sue's site About Memes The term meme (it's pronounced like dream or cream) was coined by Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene As examples he suggested “tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches”. Memes are habits, skills, songs, stories, or any other kind of information that is copied from person to person. Memes, like genes, are replicators. That is, they are information that is copied with variation and selection. Because only some of the variants survive, memes (and hence human cultures) evolve. Memes are copied by imitation, teaching and other methods, and they compete for space in our memories and for the chance to be copied again. Large groups of memes that are copied and passed on together are called co-adapted meme complexes, or memeplexes. The word “meme” has recently been included in the Oxford English Dictionary where it is defined as follows “ meme (mi:m)

46. Memetics [The Jargon Dictionary] The Jargon Dictionary http//info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/m/memetics.html memetics.memetics /me-met iks/ n. from meme The study of memes. http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/m/memetics.html

The Jargon Dictionary - http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/m/memetics.html The Jargon Dictionary Terms The M ... Terms : memetics memetics memetics /me-met'iks/ n. [from meme The study of memes. As of early 1999, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate. meme plague memetics memory farts

47. How Can We Die If We Do Not Exist? Explanation of memetics by analogy of computers. http://home.ntelos.net/~write/memes.html

HOW CAN WE DIE If We Are Not Alive A new word is in our language... The word 'meme' (pronounced 'meem') has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, with the definition: 'A self-replicating element of culture, passed on by imitation'. The term was first used in 1976 by Professor Richard Dawkins, Animal Behaviorist at the University of Oxford. But, how is that of special interest to us? Let's continue... The following discussion is meant to be explanatory rather than step-by-step rigorous. It draws on ideas from computer technology and artificial intelligence as widely understood by the general public, now that personal computers are sold at Walmart. Before the software pattern of instructions is added to the hardware, a computer is just an inert piece of junk, good only as a doorstop. The added software provides the operational patterns, but has no physical existence. The uneducated human brain without life experience at birth is capable only of instinctive reaction to environmental stress. Otherwise, it is comparable to the computer doorstop just mentioned. The dynamic, interactive program which processes input to and creates output from the human brain is the human mind, which exists only in virtual reality.

48. Memetics.co.uk The website for memetics.co.uk can be found by clicking here. memetics.co.ukis registered through Easily.co.uk get web site hosting http://www.memetics.co.uk/

The website for memetics.co.uk can be found by clicking here . memetics.co.uk is registered through Easily.co.uk - get web site hosting or domain name registration here

49. MEMETICS By Jack Hardy (c) Copyright 1985 Jack Hardy A Meme Is memetics by Jack Hardy (c) Copyright 1985 Jack Hardy A meme is basicallyan idea with cultural baggage onboard. Just as a genetic http://soli.com/jhardy/memetics.txt

50. Both2and: Beyond Binary Can you say mise en abyme ? It s a dirty job but somebody has to doit. A memetics experiment pass it along. Life in the Aggregator. http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/2002/08/28.html

August 2002 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Jul Sep pages I visit regularly Crazy Apple Rumors The Bleat boing boing Clark Hornbell ... Visible Darkness Write to me! more posts The Revenge of the Dead Cow Cult Updating Neighbors The Ultimate Pun The Obligatory Naked Mole Rat Advisory ... No Birdbrains Here Wednesday, August 28, 2002 MMeeeeooooooooooaaaarr! The cat is in the house. So far, not a single problem. And I'm having my first actual iChat with the author of Time's Shadow as we speak. Ooops, spoke too soon. I'm popping in and out of iChat like a soap bubble. Weird! [Update: temporary weirdness ended. Now fully Jaguar both at home and in the office. Schweet!] 9:23:02 PM Add a comment Can you say 'mise en abyme'? It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it. A memetics experiment - pass it along Life in the Aggregator An Experiment: Life in the Aggregator . How far can it travel? Please play by passing it along, including all source links... [ jenett.radio ] I'm willing to play [ McGee's Musings There we go. [via Seb's Open Research 12:07:49 PM Add a comment Body Image In today's entry in the Wayback Journal , I wrote: Now I'm really getting into the "body beautiful" and making my body an efficient and healthy vessel for my soul, or mind or meness. Being attractive and intelligent, combining the best of two worlds, to win what I want in the field I want to win it in. Or to be strong enough to choose not to win, if I want to. I must be whole first to accomplish these things, whole as a person, as a body and mind joined together.

51. Seb's Open Research Radio Free Blogistan What do you think? 91015 AM, A memetics experiment pass it along Life in the Aggregator. An Experiment Life in the Aggregator. http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2002/08/28.html

Seb's Open Research Pointers and thoughts on the evolution of knowledge sharing Intro My keywords Popular reads Stories and articles ... email me Topicroll: Montreal, QC Group-forming Social Software Blogtalk Conference ... Wiki Communities: open-education SocialSoftwareAlliance Research Blogs group-forming ... blaxm! Teams: Many-to-Many Smart Mobs Socialtext Blue Oxen ... OpenAccessScholarship People: with a weblog Spike Hall Chris Dent John Baez Jill Walker ... Gilles Beauchamp without a weblog Andrew Odlyzko Steve Lawrence Simon B. Shum Stevan Harnad ... Tommaso Toffoli offline Brian Eno Will Wright Jean Leloup Daniel Boucher Laurence J. Peter Plume Latraverse dead Thomas Kuhn Edsger Dijkstra Hermann Hesse Abraham Maslow ... Socrates Resources: Google Search Fagan Finder Blogs Googlism Google Glossary ... RemindMe Service Music streams: Radio Tango Argentino secret-sound-service Limbik Frequencies musicforhackers ... What do journalists, educators and researchers have in common? In my ongoing quest to understand why personal knowledge publishing is becoming especially popular with certain professions , it occurred to me that people in these professions have another thing in common: they generally have little to hide, and sharing improves the quality of their work output.

52. Here Are Some Interesting Links On The Subject Of Memetics Here are some interesting links on the subject of memetics http//jomemit.cfpm.org/http//pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html http//users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik http://www.memetics.org/

Here are some interesting links on the subject of Memetics: http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Memetics/ http://memes.org/ http://www.databank.oxydex.com/m2.html http://maxwell.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/

53. Forefathers Of Memetics: Gabriel Tarde And The Laws Of Imitation LogoMarsden, P. (2000). Forefathers of memetics Gabriel Tarde and the Laws ofImitation. Forefathers of memetics Gabriel Tarde and the Laws of Imitation. http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/2000/vol4/marsden_p.html

Marsden, P. (2000). Forefathers of Memetics: Gabriel Tarde and the Laws of Imitation Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/2000/vol4/marsden_p.html Forefathers of Memetics: Gabriel Tarde and the Laws of Imitation Paul Marsden Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences University of Sussex PaulMarsden@msn.com "Meanwhile, let us not forget that every invention and every discovery consists of the interference in somebody's mind of certain old pieces of information that have generally been handed down by others. What did Darwin's thesis about natural selection amount to? To have proclaimed the fact of competition among living things? No, but in having for the first time combined this idea with the ideas of variability and heredity. The former idea, as it was proclaimed by Aristotle, remained sterile until it was associated with the two latter ideas. From that as a starting point, we may say that the generic term, of which inventions is but a species, is the fruitful interference of repetitions." Gabriel Tarde,

54. A Strategy For Memetics: Memes As Strategies A commentary on Gatherer s paper Why the `Thought contagion metaphor is retardingthe progress of memetics. A Strategy for memetics Memes as Strategies. http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1999/vol3/marsden_p.html

Marsden, P. (1999). A Strategy for Memetics: Memes as Strategies Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/1999/vol3/marsden_p.html A Strategy for Memetics: Memes as Strategies - a commentary on Gatherer's paper: Why the `Thought Contagion' Metaphor is Retarding the Progress of Memetic Paul Marsden Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences University of Sussex PaulMarsden@msn.com Gatherer's ( ) demolition tour of mental memetics and the thought contagion metaphor is convincing and is to be applauded. Memetics organised around the interactions of thought contagions (e.g. Lynch ) is problematic because that interaction is neither observable nor measurable. This simple fact renders the thought contagion metaphor both conceptually vacuous and empirically redundant. It is certainly not by performing arbitrary mathematical manipulations and endowing the objects of introspection with contagious properties that will improve the status of a partial and misleading metaphor. As Gatherer notes, the thought contagion metaphor persists largely because of what could charitably be called a `disregard' for linguistics and cognitive science. To this I would add a dangerous `disregard' for the corpus of social science in general

55. Memetics Index memetics from Principia Cybernetica Web. memetics On a conceptual framework forcultural evolution by HansCees Speel. alt.memetics the newsgroup. http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Misc/Memetics/

Information about meme theory: Review of "Memes: The New Replicators" (chapter 11 of Dawkins' The Selfish Gene ) by Damien Sullivan. "Viruses of the Mind" by Richard Dawkins. Reprogramming Your Mind for Fun and Profit: with a brief review of meme theory by Dave Gross. Memes from Hyper-Weirdness by World Wide Web. Memes: Catchphrase of a New Generation! by Eric Tilton. Memes: An Introduction from Principia Cybernetica Web. Memetics from Principia Cybernetica Web. The Memetic Lexicon from Principia Cybernetica Web. The alt.memetics FAQ Exogenetic Solutions to the Adoption Problem in Evolutionary Psychology: or, The Adoption Meme by Dave Gross (1993) Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution by Hans-Cees Speel. alt.memetics the newsgroup. Practical, experimental and observed memetic evolution: The "Blue Star" LSD Tattoo meme virus as stalked by Dave Gross This is the Holy Salvation Meme by Greg Erwin. The C Memetic Nexus The Church of Virus Meme, Counter-meme by Mike Godwin. On the development and success of the "Godwin's Law" meme. From Wired magazine.

56. Mammal Gene Memetics | Metafilter May 11, 2004. Analysis Uncovers Critical Stretches of Human Genome. posted by Gyanat 1227 AM PST trackback (8 comments total). It s not really a surprise. http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/33020

Sunday, June 06, 2004 7:10 AM PST Home Archives MetaTalk Login ... Etc May 11, 2004 Analysis Uncovers Critical Stretches of Human Genome. posted by Gyan at 12:27 AM PST [ trackback ] (9 comments total) If they've been able to figure which genes have these universal coping mechanisms, then right on. (And chickens, of all people, are our cousins? Ah, sure, okay. That might redefine incest in some parts.) posted by chicobangs at 8:35 AM PST on May 11 It's not really a surprise. Yes and No. No, because the odds (as reported in another article) on this were 1 in 10^22. Yes, because assuming the evolutionary tree is correct, it stands to reason that closer relatives have more in common. posted by Gyan at 9:14 AM PST on May 11 What is the basis for those odds? Do you have a link to the other article? posted by at 9:20 AM PST on May 11 This article . In the 9th paragraph block. posted by Gyan at 9:29 AM PST on May 11 In the past few years, this concept is nothing new in the sciences- at least here at school where I've been taught this exact idea since I got to college posted by at 10:22 AM PST on May 11 My understanding of this is that it is quite surprising. Even in coding genes, you don't find 100% identical sequences between species usually because there are synonymous codons, which means that if there is a mutation in the right spot, it will normally have absolutely no effect on the organism. According to the article, this sequence does not code for a protein. So here you have a sequence that either a) must somehow, for some totally unknown reason, is error corrected way beyond the capabilities of any known mechanism, or b) Is so vital to the organism that any mutation would be 100% fatal, despite the fact that it doesn't code for any protein, and has a totally unknown function. That is quite strange and would seem to suggest that the central dogma is incorrect. Either that, or the universe is 6000 years old, and god put that sequence in there. Strange stuff indeed.

57. Disinformation | A Memetics Reader a memetics reader by Alex Burns (alex@disinfo.com) January 21, 2002, Copyrightremains in the hands of respective copyright holders. PART I memetics. http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1919/pg1/

Abuse Your Illusions - the follow-up to Everything You Know Is Wrong You Are Being Lied To is in the store and every bit as essential. The long-awaited Disinformation DVD is in too! U.S. Weighs Military Intervention in Liberia What The European Papers Say Violence Mars Nigerian Strikes Religion in the News: June 2003 a memetics reader by Alex Burns (alex@disinfo.com) - January 21, 2002 Throughout 1996-1997 I researched Richard Dawkins' meme (a cultural unit of information that propagates across our ecologies of mind) and considered specific applications within advertising, cults and postmodern 'designer religious viruses' ( Richard Brodie ). My research trajectory was influenced by my fascination with the late Gnosis Magazine and the science fiction author Philip K. Dick . I was freelancing for the Australian science/culture magazine 21.C and considering the initiatory/philosophical implications of Cyberpunk while in the Temple of Set . In mid-1997 I discovered Clare W. Graves

58. Minding The Planet: Memes & Memetics A Meme can be a compound object comprised of other Memes for example in classicalmemetics Catholicism is a meme comprised of numerous other memes that http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/memes_memetics/

Minding the Planet About Me Add me to your TypePad People list Syndicate this site (XML) Photo Albums Radar Networks Featured Ideas It's Time for a Virtual Species Diversity Ark Humans Should Intentionally Seed Life on Mars. Why We Must Start Now. Using Nanoparticles to Augment Human Brains...? How to Make the iPod Better ... The Human Menome Project People I Like Joi Ito Joi is smart. He does a lot of blogging. He has a video camera on his Mac laptop that he uses for wireless videoconferencing. He lives in Japan. Kris Thorisson Kris has been working with me for years on the design of the Radar Networks software, a new platform for the Semantic Web. He has a PhD from the MIT Media Lab. He designs intelligent humanoids and virtual realities. He is from Iceland, which makes him pretty cool. Jim Wissner Jim is among the most talented software developers I've ever worked with. He's a prolific Java coder and an expert on XML. He's the lead engineer for Radar Networks. Marin Spivack This is my brother's site for Tai Chi he's been studying and practicing extensively for years and now he's a teacher. I think he is probably one of the best, most authentic, Tai Chi teachers in the USA now. Debra Rodman Debra is a good friend; she's a really talented fashion designer. She started the yoga fashion craze. Check out her site.

59. Memetics' Journal memetics Journal, memetics. , userinfo, , livejournal userinfo, . , calendar, , livejournal calendar, . This community, 19 Feb 2004 0354pm. rho. , mood, , quixotic, . http://www.livejournal.com/community/memetics/

entries friends calendar memetics userinfo livejournal userinfo calendar livejournal calendar ihavefriends Get your own Meme Meme! 1 comment post comment This community rho mood quixotic music Billy Joel - River of Dreams 7 comments post comment the Theory of Memetics in action: metaphorge You've probably seen this in someone's LJ: Marriage is love. All the ways in which this idea has mutated are pretty fascinating. For example: Love is Love. Marriage is the state in which N people are formally joined together with certain legal rights and obligations toward each other. There are many, many others. This is one of the more straightforward examples of the evolutionary behavior of a meme that I've seen lately, so I thought it bore pointing out... as well as providing an additional one by making this post in the first place. 9 comments post comment matrixfrog cross-posted to On this message board I go to a lot, someone created a meme quite inadvertently. The servers tend to run very slow. So what often happens is that you press Submit, nothing happens, so you press again, and end up posting twice, with no way to delete one of the posts. Anyway, someone asked a question about "scalar weapons" and nobody seemed to know the answer, because the thread sat idle for a few days. Then someone jokingly posted something. But he accidentally clicked the Submit button THREE times, so the phrase he posted, Ah, they're 1920's style "death rays"

60. Memetics - Community Info Community Info. Community Information. Below is information about the memetics community on LiveJournal. User memetics (531534), memetics. Name memetics. http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=memetics

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