1. Memetics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, which was originated by Richard Dawkins in the 1976 book The Selfish Gene. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

Memetics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (June 2009) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards Please improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (August 2010) This article is related to the study of self-replicating units of culture, not to be confused with mimetics Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution , which was originated by Richard Dawkins in the 1976 book The Selfish Gene It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer . A meme , analogous to a gene, is an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour (etc.) which is "hosted" in one or more individual minds, and which can reproduce itself from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen memetically as a meme reproducing itself. As with genetics, particularly under Dawkins's interpretation, a meme's success may be due its contribution to the effectiveness of its host (i.e., a the meme is a useful, beneficial idea), or may be "selfish", in which case it could be considered a "virus of the mind". Memetics is notable for sidestepping the traditional concern with the truth of ideas and beliefs.

2. Memetics A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria. http://memetics.chielens.net/

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Memetics Home Memetics 101 Master's Thesis PhD ... Muttering Heights Welcome Welcome Memes are hot. Since Richard Dawkins talked about them in his revolutionary book The Selfish Gene a lot has been said and written about cultural evolution and the spreading of culture based on the principles of natural selection. A school of thought called memetics has become more and more prominent in various fields such as antropology, psychology, linguistics, marketing, computerscience and architecture. The field has developed from a theoretical field to an applied science. Memetics is predominantly used as an applied science in marketing and computerscience and has thus faced the challenges from quite some of its critics. As one of the researchers that has stood up to the challenges set by various other scientists I have applied memetics to the field of linguistics and have been able to make a quantitative study, thus refuting the claim that memetics is only a vague theory with loosely based concepts. From my 2003 study I have created 'Memetics 101' to provide an introduction to the field of memetics. Both novice and beginning memeticist can find basic information about memetics. A further exploration of my master's thesis can be found under that heading whereas my further research can be found in the PhD section. I hope that you find this page an interesting stop on your journey through memetics and am looking forward to your feedback!

3. Memetics Meme an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. memetics the theoretical and empirical science http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html

Memetics Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes Cultural evolution, including the evolution of knowledge , can be modelled through the same basic principles of variation and selection that underly biological evolution . This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication : a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme. This process of self-reproduction (the memetic life-cycle ), leading to spreading over a growing group of individuals, defines the meme as a replicator, similar in that respect to the gene (Dawkins, 1976; Moritz, 1991). Dawkins listed the following three characteristics for any successful replicator: copying-fidelity: the more faithful the copy, the more will remain of the initial pattern after several rounds of copying. If a painting is reproduced by making photocopies from photocopies, the underlying pattern will quickly become unrecognizable.

4. The Art Of Memetics By Wes Unruh, Edward Wilson Book of this name by Wes Unruh and Edward Wilson, about how ideas grow might and power, and spread as if by magic. Read online, or purchase the hard or softback version. http://artofmemetics.com

5. Memetics Papers On The Web An index of hundreds of free, online papers and articles about meme theory http://www.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Memetics/

Memetics publications on the web: This site uses QBullets to mark links: This is an "http" link to an external web site This is a "mailto" link that will pop up an email form This links to a plain text file This links to a file hosted at this site Also, names in green mark frequently-cited authors, and green asterisks ( ) mark frequently-cited works A Critique and Defense of Memesis Memesis Symposium (1996): "As of today memetics is very far from fulfilling the requirements of a science. But I think it is just a matter of time before most of these problems have been resolved." Antomarini, Brunella Speel, Hans-Cees Questions and Answers about Memetics MONTAG (1996): Five questions and answers about memes, translated from an Italian book series. Aunger, Robert A Report On The Conference "Do Memes Account For Culture?" Held At King's College, Cambridge JOM:EMIT Aunger, Robert Culture Vultures The Sciences (1999): A review of Blackmore's The Meme Machine B Baldassarre, Gianluca Cultural evolution of "guiding criteria" and behaviour in a population of neural-network agents JOM:EMIT (2001): "This work presents a computational model that investigates the nature and function of some forms of "guiding criteria" in the cultural evolution of a population of agents that learn and adapt to the environment using neural networks."

6. Memetics - Psychology Wiki memetics is an approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme. http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Memetics

Wikia Skip to Content Skip to Wiki Navigation Skip to Site Navigation Wikia Navigation Start a wiki Entertainment Fall TV Glee ... Psychology Wiki Psychology Wiki Navigation Random page Popular pages Most visited Newly changed ... Review of General Psychology Random Page Wiki Activity Watchlist Recent changes Talk Memetics Edit Read more: Sociology Psychological theories Edited by Lifeartist View full history Assessment Biopsychology ... Industrial Biological: Behavioural genetics Evolutionary psychology Neuroanatomy Neurochemistry ... Psychopharmacology Memetics is an approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme Contents History of the term Internalists and externalists Maturity New developments ... External links History of the term Edit The term comes from a transliteration of a Greek word and was used in 1904 by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in his work Die Mnemische Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalenempfindungen , translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme In his book The Selfish Gene (1976), the

7. Memetics: Hunt For The Elusive Meme Where memeticists go to gather scientific info on all things memetics. Don't post lolcats and other internet memes, but studies following memetics. http://www.reddit.com/r/memetics/

8. ``Memes, The New Replicators'' The text that started off the science of memetics. http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html

http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html Dec. 1999 Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' [ First published 1976; 1989 edition: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-286092-5 (paperback) ], the best short introduction to, and the text that kicked off, the new science of MEMETICS (and, also, the text where Dawkins coined the term ` meme The following, key, paragraph of this chapter may perhaps serve as an abstract: The notes (1), (2), ... are from the 1989 edition. Highlights ** and text in square brackets are not original. 11. Memes: the new replicators So far, I have not talked much about man in particular, though I have not deliberately excluded him either. Part of the reason I have used the term `survival machine' is that `animal' would have left out plants and, in some people's minds, humans. The arguments I have put forward should, prima facie, apply to any evolved being. If a species is to be excepted, it must be for good reasons. Are there any good reasons for supposing our own species to be unique ? I believe the answer is yes. Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word: `culture'. I use the word not in its snobbish sense, but as a scientist uses it. Cultural transmission is analogous to genetic transmission in that, although basically conservative, it can give rise to a form of evolution. Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman, even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen, each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father. Language seems to `evolve' by non-genetic means, and at a rate which is orders of magnitude faster than genetic evolution.

9. Memetics: Definition From Answers.com n. (used with a sing. verb) The study of memes and their social and cultural effects. MEME + etics (as in AESTHETICS http://www.answers.com/topic/memetics

10. The Matrix: MEME The root of the word memetics, a field of study which postulates that the meme is the basic unit of cultural evolution. Examples of memes include melodies, icons, fashion http://memex.org/meme.html

meme pron. 'meem' ) A contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from mind to mind. Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating through communication networks and face-to-face contact between people. The root of the word "memetics," a field of study which postulates that the meme is the basic unit of cultural evolution. Examples of memes include melodies, icons, fashion statements and phrases. The current issue is MEME 5.01 Death, Be Not In My Face an excerpt from Alex Heard's new book Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America SUBSCRIBING TO MEME If you want to get MEME delivered directly to your email box bi- weekly, then subscribe by sending a message reading "subscribe MEME firstname lastname" where firsname is replaced by your first name and lastname by your last name (do not include the quote symbols.) Visit the MEME archive and browse previous issues. You can also search back issues of MEME for whatever you want. davidsol@panix.com. Trademark Information: MEME is a trademark registered with the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office. Reg. No. 2,098,713.

11. NeoBiology And Ethetics - A Powerful New Way Of Viewing Life The neobiological model indicates that all living systems, genetic and memetic belong to the realm of biology. Ethetics is the field which encompasses all self-perpetuating algorithmic structures, including genetics and memetics. http://neobiology.earthsociety.org/

12. Memetics memetics is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an Ideosphere (similar to the http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/

Transhuman Page Cultural Sphere Memetics Memetics is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as "living" organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an " Ideosphere " (similar to the Biosphere) consisting of the collective of human minds. Memes reproduce by spreading to new hosts, who will spread them further (typical examples are jokes, catchphrases or politicial ideas). At present memetics is somewhat controversial. Partly this is due to misunderstandings about what it means, leading to claims that it excludes human free will, creativity and progress, and that it is bad science. This will likely change in time, as the field matures. Sections Memetic Theory Examples of memetics Debate Individual Memes ... See Also Memetic Theory Viruses of the Mind by Richard Dawkins Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission . A peer-reviewed academic net-journal of memetics. Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution by Hans-Cees Speel. How memetics as a topic can help to integrate ideas from different disciplines

13. Memetics: An Evolutionary Theory Of Cultural Transmission 1. Introduction. In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins hypothesized that living beings, including humans, are mere vehicles for the http://www.sorites.org/Issue_15/alvarez.htm

SORITES ISSN 1135-1349 http://www.sorites.org Issue #15 December 2004. Pp. 24-28 Memetics: An Evolutionary Theory of Cultural Transmission 1. Introduction In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene meme . Like genes, memes would be replicators, and the mechanism by which they produced copies of themselves would be imitation: Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation [1]. Ever since, the study of memes memetics The question is thus whether the notion of meme is to have a merely heuristic value, or whether on the contrary it may make possible the development of a scientific programme, be it in its original Dawkinsian form or in some modified version. 2. The Meme-as-Germ and the Meme-as-Gene Literature on memetics tends to divide into two main branches, according to the analogy on which it is based. The most popular interpretation of memetics, sometimes known as the interpretation, sees memes as similar to disease agents as reflected in the titles of well-known popularisations and / or vulgarisations of memetics:

14. Meme - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia See for example John D. Gottsch Mutation, Selection, And Vertical Transmission Of Theistic Memes In Religious Canons in Journal of memetics Evolutionary Models of Information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Meme From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other uses, see Meme (disambiguation) This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (November 2009) A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/ , rhyming with "cream" ) is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. (The word is a blend of "gene" and the Greek word /mɪmetɪsmos/ ) for "something imitated".) Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures The British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" in The Selfish Gene as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion, and the technology of building arches. Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution ) through the processes of variation mutation competition , and inheritance influencing an individual meme's reproductive success . Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct , while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate . Theorists point out that memes which replicate the most effectively spread best, and some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.

15. Frequently Asked Question What is a meme? Glenn Grant Meme (pron. meem) A contagious information alt.memetics resources page; bibliography http://www.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/what.is.html

"What is a meme?" Glenn Grant : Meme (pron. meem ): A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. Tony Lezard : Richard Dawkins, who coined the word in his book The Selfish Gene defines the meme as simply a unit of intellectual or cultural information that survives long enough to be recognized as such, and which can pass from mind to mind. There's not much of a sense of describing thought processes, but nor is it just a model. As Richard Dawkins writes (this is from memory), "God indeed exists, if only as a pattern in brain structures replicated across the minds of billions of people throughout the world." (Of course the patterns aren't physically identical, but they represent the same thing.) Richard Dawkins : Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leading from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. If a scientist hears, or reads about, a good idea, he passes it on to his colleagues and students. He mentions it in his articles and his lectures. If the idea catches on, it can be said to propagate itself, spreading from brain to brain.

16. Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, And Mind Virus Resource FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, Virus of the Mind .) http://memecentral.com/

Meme Central Books Level 3 Resources ... Site Map Meme Central Welcome to Meme Central, the center of the world of memetics. Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives. They are a kind of Drug of the Mind. Confused? Blame it on memes. Quick Tour: Subscribe to my free newsletter, Meme Update Start reading my book Virus of the Mind: the New Science of the Meme ... about memetics. Memetics FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) How do you pronounce "meme"? "Meem" (rhymes with "dream") What is a meme? Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life. The breakthrough in memetics is in extending Darwinian evolution to culture. There are several exciting conclusions from doing that, one of which is the ability to predict that ideas will spread not because they are "good ideas", but because they contain "good memes" such as danger, food and sex that push our evolutionary buttons and force us to pay attention to them. Who invented memes?

17. Journal Of Memetics - Aims And Scope The Journal of memeticsEvolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT) is an international, peer-refereed, scientific journal. It is intended as a forum for academics http://pcp.vub.ac.be/jom-emit/

About Current Issue Past Issues History ... Submissions The Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT) is an international, peer-refereed, scientific journal. It is intended as a forum for academics and professionals to discuss their research on the spread of information from an evolutionary point of view. The journal is published on the web without subscription fee, proposing two issues per year since 1997 (see the history . Since 2005, the journal is edited by Francis Heylighen, assisted by the managing editor Klaas Chielens. The general policy is determined by the editorial and advisory boards , including many of the experts in the domain. Subject Domain: Memetics In the words of of its inventor, Richard Dawkins, the word "meme" refers to "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation". More precisely, a meme can be defined as an information pattern, held in an individual's memory or in an outside artefact (e.g. book, record or tool), which is likely to be communicated or copied to another individual's memory. Examples of memes are ideas, technologies, theories, songs, fashions, and traditions. This covers all forms of beliefs, values and behaviors that are normally taken over from others rather than discovered independently. Memetics is the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes. It core idea is that memes differ in their degree of "fitness", i.e. adaptation to the socio-cultural environment in which they propagate. Because of natural selection, fitter memes will be more successful in being communicated, "infecting" a larger number of individuals and/or surviving for a longer time within the population. Memetics tries to understand what characterizes fit memes, and how they affect individuals, organizations, cultures and society at large.

18. Memetics: Culture And Evolution Explores the nature of a meme, memetic theory and culture relating to evolution. http://meme-evolution-and-culture.blogspot.com/

skip to main skip to sidebar Memetics: Culture and Evolution Explores the nature of memetics, memetic theory, memes, and culture relating to evolution. Tuesday, August 11, 2009 This is an epic article that relates chaos and complexity theory to the cultural evolution of memes. I will go into detail about a number of phenomena that these fields present us, and how they apply to memetics. Quick Navigation: 1 Chaos Theory 1.1 Chaotic Systems 1.1.1 Sensitive Dependence (The Butterfly Effect) 1.1.2 Deterministic Behavior ... 4 Final Remarks Chaos theory chaotic system is. The three major qualities in the aforementioned are sensitive dependence, deterministic interactions, and non-linear dynamics. The Butterfly Effect is a well-known folklore describing sensitive dependence The term for deterministic The third quality of a chaotic system is non-linearity State space As an aside, some theoreticians like to throw in a fourth variable into the definition of chaos: aperiodic evolution. This essentially means that an evolving chaotic system never repeats values in a recognizable or regular manner. It may tend to progress towards or be attracted to a specific outcome, although the relations between microscopic agents never repeat themselves. The Lorenz attractor is one example of a chaotic system, as seen below.

19. Social And Cultural Evolution General Theoretical Approaches and Models memetics Sociobiological Perspectives and Hominisation Cyberevolution and the Global Brain http://socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm

20. 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. http://aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/

Transhuman Page Cultural Sphere Memetics Memetics is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as "living" organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an " Ideosphere " (similar to the Biosphere) consisting of the collective of human minds. Memes reproduce by spreading to new hosts, who will spread them further (typical examples are jokes, catchphrases or politicial ideas). At present memetics is somewhat controversial. Partly this is due to misunderstandings about what it means, leading to claims that it excludes human free will, creativity and progress, and that it is bad science. This will likely change in time, as the field matures. Sections Memetic Theory Examples of memetics Debate Individual Memes ... See Also Memetic Theory Viruses of the Mind by Richard Dawkins Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission . A peer-reviewed academic net-journal of memetics. Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution by Hans-Cees Speel. How memetics as a topic can help to integrate ideas from different disciplines

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