Memes And Memetics Memes and memetics. Richard jargon file memetics; The Church of Virus(added 11/4/97); Viruses of the Mind (added 7/12/98); Journal http://www.kbuxton.com/memes.html
Ockhams Razor - 3/03/2002: Memetics: A Short Leap Forward? Professor Emeritus Anthony Barnett from Canberra talks about a new disciplinememetics which is to give us a new view of human nature. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s493735.htm
Extractions: Now Tony Barnett, as Ive said before, did his first broadcast for the BBC in 1941, before I was born. And I suspect before you were born. Hes an expert on rats and has indeed published a book by that name which led to his being featured in Who magazine. Quite extraordinary. But this time hes not ratting, hes meming, as youll hear.
A Memetic Lexicon memetics LEXICON. What if ideas were viruses? Sources Richard Dawkins, TheSelfish Gene. Keith Henson, memetics , Whole Earth Review 57 5055. http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/memetics-lexicon.html
Extractions: Version 3.2 Glenn Grant, Memeticist "An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you." Morris Berman Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot replicate itself; it reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing its host to make millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can parasitically infect your mind and alter your behavior, causing you to want to tell your friends about the idea, thus exposing them to the idea-virus. Any idea which does this is called a "meme" (pronounced `meem'). Unlike a virus, which is encoded in DNA molecules, a meme is nothing more than a pattern of information, one that happens to have evolved a form which induces people to repeat that pattern. Typical memes include individual slogans, ideas, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions. It may sound a bit sinister, this idea that people are hosts for mind-altering strings of symbols, but in fact this is what human culture is all about. As a species, we have co-evolved with our memes. Imagine a group of early Homo Sapiens in the Late Pleistocene epoch. They've recently arrived with the latest high-tech hand axes and are trying to show their Homo Erectus neighbours how to make them. Those who can't get their heads around the new meme will be at a disadvantage and will be out-evolved by their smarter cousins.
Journal Of Memetics Journal of memetics. Begin topics. We seek to discuss issues concerningmemetics such as * Mechanisms involved in evolutionary processes. http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/j/msg02377.html
Blog Memetics And Kittens Blog memetics and Kittens. I wonder if the creation of Blogacatmas can be tracedback to HP s blog memetics study and the offhand kitten comment. http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2004/03/08/86109.aspx
Extractions: Got Source Control? This by way of Cameron by way of Word Soup by way of [extrapolate here]. I wonder if the creation of Blogacatmas can be traced back to HP's blog memetics study and the offhand kitten comment. Is that enough human aggregator for one paragraph? Okay then, here's some original, unhyperlinked content. Charge of the Blogger Charade Blogs to the left of them
Science, Biology, Sociobiology: Memetics lineage. Anders Transhuman Pages memetics Collection of links andessays about memes ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. http://www.combose.com/Science/Biology/Sociobiology/Memetics/
Extractions: Related links of interest: Computers:Artificial Intelligence A Memetic Analysis of Policy Making - Presents a memetic framework for the analysis of policy making based on three concepts from evolutionary theory: interaction, replication, and lineage. Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics - Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography. Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' - The text that started off the science of memetics. Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon - Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end their agnosticism on this matter. To that purpose he has written an exposition of neuromemetics called The Electric Meme. Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology - Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how.
Extractions: Media Virus in viral marketing is not just a spam e-mail, as most people tend to think. It is about how some ideas, products and behaviours spread like viruses (memes). Viral or meme marketing is creative marketing, these viruses can be started in order to greatly benefit the products they relate to, without big marketing budgets. Common viral marketing technique is ebooks, you create an electronic book and give it free away on your website. Other tactic is that you create a freeware program, in program there are links to your web site. Find out how to package your text, HTML, Flash, audio/video etc. into secure eBook software that not only protects, but also collects contact information you can use to market your products or service too! Click here for more information. Books: Russell Goldsmith
Memetics, Minds Color Genetics And Viral Marketing Science of Meme, memetics. Meme (Publisher). Robert Aunger (Editor)Darwinizing Culture The Status of memetics as a Science The http://www.saunalahti.fi/jawap/colour/books/meme.html
Extractions: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. In Virus of the Mind, author and creative genius Richard Brodie carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter Daniel Dennett , and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives. Viruses of the mind are not a future worry: they are here with us now and are evolving to become better and better at their job of infecting us. The recent explosion of mass media and the information superhighway have made the earth a prime breeding ground for viruses of the mind. Will there be a mental plague? Will only some of us survive with our free will intact? Brodie weaves together science, ethics, and current events as he raises these and other disturbing questions about memes. (Publisher) Susan Blackmore
Memetics - Jef's Web Files Rumors Thrive in a Nation Shaped by Myth. The US is struggling with aninformation war as well as a shooting war in Iraq. Many civilians http://www.jefallbright.net/memetics
Extractions: Amid fires in the night and mortar rounds pounding city and village, this nation, where so much is uncertain, feeds on the half-truths and conspiracies that U.S. forces are struggling to contain in what has become an information war. The gossip on the street and the grisly images flickering across Arab television are doing as much to undermine American authority as well-armed insurgents staging ambushes on desert highways.
Betterhumans Memetics While a fairly young science, memetics has gained much interest due to its successfulapplication to many phenomena. memetics. Betterhumans Staff. 11/21/2002. http://www.betterhumans.com/Resources/Encyclopedia/article.aspx?articleID=2002-0
Betterhumans Content memetics. 12/16/2002 954 AM. Encyclopedia. memetics. 11/21/2002 1020AM. Around the Web. Oxford Scientist Launches Sharp Critique of Religion. http://www.betterhumans.com/Topics/content.aspx?TopicName=Memetics
Memetics are not imitated and preserves those that are. Read to learn about.memetics Consulting. Check out the sister company of The Folk http://www.folktraditionsstore.com/memetics.htm
Extractions: The Folk Traditions Store In Savannah's Historic District 414 Whitaker Street (at Taylor). Phone: 912-341-8898. Memes are activities that people learn from each other by imitation. They evolve by a process of natural selection, which eliminates memes that are not imitated and preserves those that are. Read to learn about Check out the sister company of The Folk Traditions Store to learn more about how memes relate to growing roots, significance, harmony and balance www.memeticsconstulting.com David has written a book called Memes in Your Life , which is available at the store or by mail order (call 912-341-8898 or email david@folktraditionsstore.com and include a phone number where you can be reached). It is the best selling book in The Folk Traditions Store. See the new Memetic Profiles section of the memetics consulting website, which includes profiles of people who have mastered a human activity. Learn the paths to mastery. Acquire a deeper appreciation of the activity. Get ideas. Preserve a tradition. Grow roots, significance, harmony and balance.
Science - Biology - Sociobiology - Memetics Directory - Search Top Science Biology Sociobiology memetics See also Computers ArtificialIntelligence (1,721). Science/Biology/Sociobiology/memetics http://www.sedirectory.net/Science/Biology/Sociobiology/Memetics/
Extractions: Web Hosting Dir Web Design Dir Search Engine Dir Hardware Info ... Resources Search: Top Science Biology Sociobiology ... Memetics See also: Science/Biology/Sociobiology/Memetics Journal of Memetics - Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission. alt.memetics bibliography - A comprehensive bibliography of Memetics and related topics. Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics - Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography. Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' - The text that started off the science of memetics. The Church of Virus - Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon - Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end their agnosticism on this matter. To that purpose he has written an exposition of neuromemetics called The Electric Meme. Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology - Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how.
Journal Of Memetics Journal of memetics Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission. TheJournal of memetics is meant to solve the above mentioned problems http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/signpost/memetics.html
Extractions: Go back to Signpost Home Page Sponsored by the Centre for Policy Modelling, the Prinicipia Cybernetica Project, and SEPA, Delft University of Technology ISSN 1366-4786 The Journal of Memetics is a new peer-reviewed academic journal. The editors feel that a journal on memetics can be an important place for scientists and professionals to discuss their views and research in memetics. The first issue is scheduled for May 1997. The journal will be published on the Internet without subscription fee. Like other journals, the Journal of Memetics will only publish papers after they have been approved by peer-review. In order to organize this we have an editorial board with reviewers, and an advisory board. The Journal of Memetics seeks to develop the memetic perspective, with space devoted to relevant evolutionary issues and other related topics. We seek to discuss issues concerning memetics such as: In 1976, Dawkins invented the word 'meme,' defining it as 'the new replicator', 'a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation' [11]. The initial description of 'meme' by Dawkins is rather vague, as he admits himself [12], which is a possible reason for current diverging views on what a meme really is, and how the memetic model can be used. We are confronted with an avalanche of books, essays, and publications scattered over different journals and disciplines, with dialogue flashing up here and there in an unstructured manner. Many dialogues disappear after only a brief lifespan. This chaos exists because a general framework is lacking.
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Extractions: As a journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has received awards and honors for his reporting on police misconduct, abuse of authority, and racial discrimination, education and housing in Philadelphia. He exposed police and prosecutorial wrongdoing in the police attack on the Move organization and the subsequent prosecution of Move members. A founding member of the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, Pa. and Minister of Information. His political activities caused The Federal Bureau of Information (FBI) to maintain a surveillance of him since he was 16 years of age. They have acknowledged accumulating hundreds of pages of reports on his activities, none of which reflected criminal activity. Convicted of first degree murder and given the death penalty for the alleged shooting and killing of a white police officer on December 9, 1981. He had no prior criminal record. He has been on death row in Pennsylvania for 17 years, awaiting execution - the only political prisoner on death row. 100cc - Surgery ADAM African Aperture Allen Ginsberg's Scrap Leaves Art Guide Art in the Park Art Net Artbots ArtNet ... Lannan Foundation Update LEMUR - League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots London Musicians Collective Memetics MIT Media Laboratory ... Scottish Arts Council Sculptor.Org
Extractions: Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon - Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end their agnosticism on this matter. To that purpose he has written an exposition of neuromemetics called The Electric Meme.
Memetics memetics. memetics /me·met´iks/, n. from meme The study of memes.As of early 2003, this is still an extremely informal and http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/memetics.html
Thought Contagion Science Books on memes and memetics are often not as related as they seem, due to theprofusion of contrary definitions for the word meme. Authors advancing http://www.thoughtcontagion.com/
Extractions: Introduction: Thought contagions are beliefs or ideas that "program" for their own spreadingultimately affecting whole societies. By their strong effects on how we live, such ideas secure self-propagation by inducing evangelism, abundant childraising and dropout prevention. Ideas harnessing these human functions most effectively win out over weaker variants. Evolving like life forms, through evolution by natural selection, thought contagions vie for ever stronger influence in human lives. Thought contagions range from fast rumors to slowly spreading traditional religions. (Scientists wanting a quick introduction should see "An Introduction to the Evolutionary Epidemiology of Ideas" The practical implications of thought contagions include factors leading to war or peace, racism, neo-fascism, religious strife, overpopulation, street gangs, education, violence reduction, stock market bubbles and crashes, economic growth and recession, apocalyptic religion, fad diets, big breast obsessions, child raising, how children's games spread, abortion clashes, sexual politics and sexism, dating, gay bashing, marriage customs, war, guns, terrorism, AIDS, AIDS denial movements, drug policy, contagion marketing, raising the creative output of individuals, organizations, or societies, global security, military intelligence failures, culture wars, and many other areas.
Memetics memetics was invented by Richard Dawkins, and is a theory for understandingthe spreading of useful information patterns (ideas). http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/memetics/index_body.html
Extractions: Memetics was invented by Richard Dawkins, and is a theory for understanding the spreading of useful information patterns (ideas). The word "meme" is a parallel to "gene", and signifies that this is a metaphor which likens the spreading of ideas to that of the spreading of genes. In this metaphor, ideas are taken to be akin to viruses, "infecting" their hosts in a symbiotic state. This theory has been very popular in certain circles, such as the FutureCulture mailinglist and other places where information theory is considered important, yet some scepticism has been uttered. Nevertheless it is interesting to see a theory which demonstrates self-reference (the idea of a "meme" is itself a meme), yet seems to have some usefulness as a tool for analysis of culture. A good point to start is to look at the FAQ for alt.memetics or to search Altavista for "memetics and meme" . A shorter introduction is given by the Jargon File 3.0.0 's entries on meme and memetics (beware: by accessing this link you risk exposure to a vast meme complex native to hacker culture...)
