21. Memetics Seminar Journal of memetics. Online publication offering articles and discussion from May 1997 through the present. Items listed below by date are required. http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/memesis.htm

READING ASSIGNMENTS AND DISCUSSION TOPICS ANG6990 CULTURAL MEMETICS Back to Terry's Main Page. Journal of Memetics. On-line publication offering articles and discussion from May 1997 through the present. Items listed below by date are required. Other items are recommended. Memetics Resources. An annotated list of on-line readings and book listings. Items listed below by date are required. Other items are recommended. As ANG6990 has progressed, it has become necessary to provide the students with more background in linguistics and cultural studies from the traditional writings of social science and philosophy. The class is completing the course with such readings alongside some of the current critical essays suggesting that most of the core memetics writers lack (a) operational precision and (b) basic awareness of the empirical or philosophical foundations of linguistics or semiotics. This is not to suggest that memetics has nothing to offer current cultural studies. Rather, we have come to believe that whatever positive results will derive from memetics must be understood and/or interpreted through less muddled writings than many of those in the citations linked above. We have left our own short essay, "Basal Memes, Deep Structure, and Culture"

22. Kilpinen Memetics memetics A Critique On the use of meaning concepts about nature and culture* Erkki Kilpinen* * (Draft Please do not quote verbatim) Abstract. In recent years the socalled ‘meme http://www.unlv.edu/centers/cdclv/pragmatism/kilpinen_memetics.html

Memetics: A Critique On the use of meaning concepts about nature and culture* Erkki Kilpinen* Draft: Please do not quote verbatim) Abstract Repetition, for a god, is a sign of majesty, Introduction: Where is Tom Sebeok Now that We Need Him? the ibid Enter the meme Thirty years ago the British zoologist Richard Dawkins published a book for which he became famous, The Selfish Gene people The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation meme (Dawkins 1989, p. 192; original italics). Die Mneme Dawkins rehearsed and extended his argument in his next major work, The Extended Phenotype (1982), the book that he has called his own Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Consciousness Explained (1991, chapter 7, sections 6-7). In his next major work, and he has been a regular contributor to this discussion also later on (e.g., Dennett 2000; 2001). The Meme Machine presuppose The Extended Phenotype The Meme Machine is not new, and what is new is speculative and questionable.

23. A Very Short Introduction To Memetics (An unedited excerpt from The Art of Perception An Introduction to Information Reality ) In this section it is considered how the core features of memetics function, to http://www.kolumbus.fi/henrympiironen/Memetics.html

Henry M. Piironen X author biography articles memes resources books contact A very short introduction to memetics welcome to read a very short introduction to memetics (An unedited excerpt from "The Art of Perception: An Introduction to Information Reality") In this section it is considered how the core features of memetics function, to enable the perception of the interconnectivity of individuals through information exchange and to enable the perception of core features concerning the effect of information reaching the contemporary reality from the distant past. It is also introduced how information can be divided to units and how they can be put to the frame of information entropy. This section also introduces how individuals, when together, are exosomatically connected, i.e. how the people around an individual are exosomatic extensions for him/her when they are interconnected via information. Thus, the basic infrastructure of the superorganism of humans is introduced here in the context of information reality. The virtual interactive framework of imitation “In imitation – which we are told, must not be confused with ‘emulation’ or ‘ontogenic ritualization’ found in closely related apes – the method and the results are produced by observation. Imitating humans focus on the model’s (i.e., the observed’s) behavior and goals, attempting to reproduce them faithfully.”

24. 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://www.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?

25. Memetics: Science Of Information Viruses Nancho Advisory While this treatment focuses on the pathological viral aspects of ideas, it might be helpful to also keep in mind their adaptive genelike functions. http://www.nancho.net/memes/infoviru.html

MEMETICS The Science of Information Viruses By Keith Henson Nancho Advisory: While this treatment focuses on the pathological "viral" aspects of ideas, it might be helpful to also keep in mind their adaptive gene-like functions. Conventional wisdom implies that, like germs and Indians, the only good virus is a dead one. Yet we know that memes like liberty, democracy, small-is-beautiful, et salubrious cetera have played an actively benevolent role in human social evolution. To inoculate the earth against the abusive ideas traced below we may have to set a meme to catch (and supplant) a meme... We don't have a science of social prediction. Until recently we haven't even had much in the way of theories. Our continual surprise at the development of cults, religions, wars, fads, and other social movements is a notable exception to the steady progress humans have made in building better models of our environment. Our lack of good models must be considered a major deficiency. A successful theory for the development of social movements will have to provide a unifying theory for events that make up much of the evening news. It will have to discover common features that lie behind the diverse trends causing problems in Nicaragua, South Africa, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. It should be able to produce a plausible model for the breakup of the Rajneesh cult. The theory should be able to predict the conditions under which Turkey will be subverted by a fundamentalist version of Islam similar to that which has led to so much grief in Iran.

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27. Definition Of Meme | Memes.org: Mind Viruses Defines the term and explains the theory. From memes.org, a blog and forum devoted to memes, memetics, emergence theory and conspiracy. http://www.memes.org/definition-of-meme

@import "/files/css/94bdc57a2b41261ceba2efce84c838ba.css"; Join Memes Definition of Meme Forums Home Definition of Meme View Track By admin - Posted on September 17th, 2007 Tagged: define defined definition definition of meme ... memetics A meme is any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. A meme is defined within memetic theory as a unit of cultural information, cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. Multiple memes may propagate as cooperative groups called memeplexes (meme complexes). Via Wikipedia Biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in 1976. He gave as examples tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashions, ways of making pots, and the technology of building arches. Meme theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection similarly to Charles Darwin 's theory of biological evolution through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an organism's reproductive success. So with memes, some ideas will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse, mutate. Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts.

28. The Industrial Memetics Institute The Industrial memetics Institute is an unfathomably vast hierarchical bureaucracy made up of extremely boring people who spend their days in row after row of gray cubicles http://industrialmemetics.com/

Greetings Consumer! About Executive Officers Additional Members Projects ... Office Locations The Industrial Memetics Institute is an unfathomably vast hierarchical bureaucracy made up of extremely boring people who spend their days in row after row of gray cubicles; sitting at gray desks, typing at gray computer terminals, and thinking gray thoughts. The employees of the Industrial Memetics Institute run the world. A few key presses on one of our computer terminals can mean the difference between life and death for thousands of people in the first world. Our employees do not understand this relationship, and they do not enjoy their jobs. We hope that you do not find our website too exciting, and we hope that you are not aimlessly browsing the web when you have work to do. Sincerely, The Industrial Memetics Board of Directors Be sure to visit our flagship propaganda serving new-media web property, MemeStreams Join Today MemeStreams Search Home Privacy

29. Memetics | Memes.org: Mind Viruses Rudy Carrasco has a meme up Scriptures that are central to my faith. He’s made some good choices, so suitably inspired, I’ll pick six of my own favorites, says Hugo Schwyzer. http://memes.org/tags/memetics?page=8

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31. Memetics | Define Memetics At Dictionary.com Computing Dictionary memetics definition philosophy /memet'iks/ The study of memes . As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/memetics

32. Memetics: Interesting Thing Of The Day The way beliefs spread from one person to another resembles, in some ways, the way a virus spreads. A modern theory of idea epidemiology casts new light on religions, fads http://itotd.com/articles/400/memetics/

33. Memetics: Facts, Discussion Forum, And Encyclopedia Article This article is related to the study of selfreplicating units of culture, not to be confused with mimetic http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Memetics

Home Discussion Topics Dictionary ... Login Memetics Memetics Topic Home Discussion Definition Discussion Ask a question about ' Memetics Start a new discussion about ' Memetics Answer questions from other users Full Discussion Forum Encyclopedia This article is related to the study of self-replicating units of culture, not to be confused with mimetic Mimetic In mathematics, mimesis is the quality of a numerical method which imitates some properties of the continuum problem. The goal of numerical analysis is to approximate the continuum, so instead of solving a partial differential equation one aims in solve a discrete version of the continuum problem... s. Memetics is a term coined by Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, literary translation, artistic creation, and discovery in mathematics and physics... in the 1980s, relating to the notion of meme Meme A meme is a 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... , introduced by Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford....

34. Memetics And Memetic Algorithms List of mailing lists, forums, algortihms, and websites. http://www.aridolan.com/ad/adb/MM.html

Home Page Alife Database (Main Menu) Home Page Memetics and Memetic Algorithms File Not found File Not found The requested URL /~faisal/man/bookmarks.html was not found on this server. Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resources Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resources Indexes Related indexes include Alife Online at the Santa Fe Institute, The Genetic Algorithms Archive at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Aritificial Intelligence, EnCoRe and Zooland by J�rg Heitk�tter, Complex (Adaptive) Systems Information collected by Alex Mallet, Nova Genetica by Darin R. Molnar, the Genetic Programming Notebook by Jaim Genetic algorithms Genetic algorithms Bibliography General Applications Departments Disciplines Personal home pages General information Genetic Algorithms Archive Genetic algorithms overview Nova Genetica Departments Ann Arbor Michigan Berlin HU Berlin TU Duluth Minnesota Lansing Michigan State London University College Mannheim Sankt Augustin Santa Fe Urbana-Ch The Genetic Algorithms Archive The Genetic Algorithms Archive The Genetic Algorithms Archive is a repository for information related to research in genetic algorithms. Available from this site are past issues of the GA-List digest, source code for many GA implementations, and announcements about GA-related conferences. Also, links are given to many interesting sites around the World with material related to evolutionary comput

35. Journal Of Memetics - Evolutionary Models Of Information Transmission Journal of memetics Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission This incarnation of JoM-EMIT is closed. The existing papers will continue to be freely accessible at this site. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/

This incarnation of JoM- EMIT is closed The existing papers will continue to be freely accessible at this site. There was to be a relaunch but after several years nothing has happened. The links are now fixed! Last Issue - Retropectives and Prospects on 8 years of JoM- EMIT and Memetics ... EMIT Ancilliary Information: About the journal: aims, scope, editors, etc. Practical questions about JoM- EMIT Information for authors ... Memetics discussion list Other: A brief overview and history of memetics A bibliography of memetics A lexicon of memetics at the Principia Cybernetica Project Links to sites related to memetics ... Other on-line publications on memetics Sponsored by the Centre for Policy Modelling , and the Prinicipia Cybernetica Project ISSN 1366-4786

36. Industrial Memetics Institute | Executive Officers Tom Cross Chairman. MemeStreams Page; Personal Webpage; Tom Cross wears many hats. In 2001, Tom cofounded Industrial memetics with Nick Levay and began work on MemeStreams, a innovative http://www.industrialmemetics.com/officers.php

Executive Officers About Executive Officers Additional Members Projects ... Office Locations Tom Cross Chairman MemeStreams Page Personal Webpage Tom Cross wears many hats. In 2001, Tom cofounded Industrial Memetics with Nick Levay and began work on MemeStreams , a innovative collaborative blogging system that combines social networking and reputation systems technology. Tom has operated electronic communities both on the web and over the modem since 1991. He is also an Internet privacy and freedom advocate and frequently speaks on technology policy issues. In 1996 he cofounded Electronic Frontiers Georgia, where he participated in a successful effort to prevent the State of Georgia from banning pseudononymous speech online. Tom received a BS in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. Nick Levay Chief Executive Officer MemeStreams Page Personal Webpage Nick Levay wears a black cowboy hat. In 2001, Nick cofounded Industrial Memetics with Tom Cross after starting the development of MemeStreams . Nick has over a decade of experience with Internet media, information technology, and information security, as well as an educational background in traditional media. Nick played a key role in the design and construction of several Internet Service Providers in North America and Asia. Nick has a BS in Music Business and Communications Management from

37. Memetics Towards a definition of memes… Since Dawkins first spoke of memes in The Selfish Gene, much time has passed and several scientists have ventured into the realm of memetics. http://memetics.chielens.net/memetics/definition.html

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Memetics Home Memetics 101 Master's Thesis PhD ... Muttering Heights Memetics 101 Introduction Definition Memes as Replicators Memeplexes ... Recommended Reading Since Dawkins first spoke of memes in The Selfish Gene Selfish Gene Memetics Susan Blackmore comes to the conclusion that it is nearly impossible to agree on a definition of memetics ( Meme Machine 53). Indeed, it seems that every scientist has his or her own definition of what exactly can be considered a meme. I personally use a definition that is somewhere in the middle of the three aforementioned ones. Klaas Chielens

38. Def-Logic :: Arcade Games By Brent Silby » //Brent Silby Project Provides a number of ePapers on consciousness, memetics, evolution, and the philosophy of mind. http://www.def-logic.com/silbyproject.html

@import url( http://def-logic.com/main/wp-content/themes/silby3/style.css ); DEF-LOGIC HOME ALL GAMES MASTERPIECE ARCADE ... Curriculum Vitae This is a complete and up-to-date Curriculum Vitae, hosted at scribd.com Articles in Philosophy The complete catalog of papers is hosted at scribd.com. Subjects include Consciousness, the Mind, Evolution, Space Exploration, Memetics (the evolution of ideas and culture), the Environment, and Nanotechnology. DJ Site: brentishouse.com Certain Doubt Does God exist? How has the discovery of Evolution changed our world view? What is a mind? Enjoy a range of Philosophical articles and videos at the Certain Doubt website. Background In 1995 I enrolled at the University of Canterbury. Originally a computer science major, I fell victim to the seductive influence of philosophy, which prompted me to change my course of study. I completed my Masters degree in 1999, and was employed by the Department of Philosophy as a teaching and research assistant until 2002. My philosophical interests include Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Memetics, Evolution, and the Origin and Structure of the Universe. I continue to research and write in Philosophy. Click here to view my articles.

39. A Brief Overview And History Of Memetics Journal of memeticsEvolutionary Models of Information Transmission http//cfpm.org/jom-emit/overview.html http://www.cfpm.org/jom-emit/overview.html

Journal of Memetics Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/overview.html A Brief Overview and History of Memetics The History of the Memetic Approach Memetics and Related Evolutionary Approaches Some Key References Back to JoM-EMIT Home The History of the Memetic Approach At least since the early seventies several authors have tried to adopt the principle of evolution by selection to understand the continuous change in cultural behaviors (Boyd , Calvin , Campbel , Cloak ). Richard Dawkins popularized the memetic approach. He coined the term 'meme' as an analog to the biological unit of inheritance, the gene or the genetic replicator (Dawkins ). The rather simple distinction between genetic replicators as 'genes' on the one hand, opposed to all non-genetic replicators as 'memes' has been firmly imprinted in the evolutionary thinking about cultural information (Dennett , Hofstadter , Hull , Lynch , Westoby ). Since its initial conception, the term 'meme' has been used under very different meanings and in very different contexts, infecting a wide variety of disciplines. Among the most known are Dennett , who sees the human mind as being built up with memes comparable to the programming of a computer. Hull

40. Memetics - Definition memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme. http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Memetics

Memetics - Definition Memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History of The Term 1.1 Open questions 2 See also 3 References ... 5 External links History of The Term In his book The Selfish Gene , the ethologist Richard Dawkins (1976) invented the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene , arguing that replication also happens in culture , albeit in a different sense. In his book, Dawkins contended that the meme is a unit of information residing in the brain and is the mutating replicator in human cultural evolution. It is a pattern that can influence its surroundings and can propagate. This created great debate among sociologists, biologists, and scientists of other disciplines, because Dawkins himself did not provide a sufficient explanation of how the replication of units of information in the brain controls human behavior and ultimately culture. Accordingly, the term "unit of information" came to be defined in different ways by many scientists. Susan Blackmore (2002) re-stated the meme definition as whatever is copied from one person to another person, whether habits, skills, songs, stories, or any other kind of information. Further she said that 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

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