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The meme machine

Uniquely among animals, humans are capable of imitation and so can copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviors, inventions, songs and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. According to memetic theory, memes, like genes, are replicators, competing to get into as many brains as possible, and this memetic competition has fashioned our minds and culture, just as natural selection has designed our bodies. Can the analogy between memes and genes lead us to powerful new theories that actually explain anything important? This book ends by confronting the deepest questions of all about ourselves: the nature of the inner self, the part of us that is the centre of our consciousness, that feels emotions, has memories, holds beliefs and makes decisions. Author Blackmore contends that this inner self is an illusion, a creation of the memes for the sake of their own replication.--From publisher description.

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  • "Ben shu bao gua you guan mi mi wen ti de san ge wen ti, she hui sheng wu xue de xian du, li ta xing wei de mi mi xue chan shi, xin shi dai de mi mi, zhong ji de mi mi fu he ti deng nei rong."
  • "Uniquely among animals, humans are capable of imitation and so can copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviors, inventions, songs and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. According to memetic theory, memes, like genes, are replicators, competing to get into as many brains as possible, and this memetic competition has fashioned our minds and culture, just as natural selection has designed our bodies. Can the analogy between memes and genes lead us to powerful new theories that actually explain anything important? This book ends by confronting the deepest questions of all about ourselves: the nature of the inner self, the part of us that is the centre of our consciousness, that feels emotions, has memories, holds beliefs and makes decisions. Author Blackmore contends that this inner self is an illusion, a creation of the memes for the sake of their own replication.--From publisher description."
  • "Uniquely among animals, humans are capable of imitation and so can copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviors, inventions, songs and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. According to memetic theory, memes, like genes, are replicators, competing to get into as many brains as possible, and this memetic competition has fashioned our minds and culture, just as natural selection has designed our bodies. Can the analogy between memes and genes lead us to powerful new theories that actually explain anything important? This book ends by confronting the deepest questions of all about ourselves: the nature of the inner self, the part of us that is the centre of our consciousness, that feels emotions, has memories, holds beliefs and makes decisions. Author Blackmore contends that this inner self is an illusion, a creation of the memes for the sake of their own replication.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Memes are the way that ideas, behaviours or skills are passed on from person to person by imitation, in the way that our bodies pass on genes. Examples include tunes, fashion and ways of building arches."@en
  • "Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability to imitate, and so to copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviors, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book "The selfish gene." Memes, like genes, are replicators, competing to find space in our minds and cultures, and this enthralling book investigates the consequences. Confronting the deepest questions, from why humans have such big brains and language, to altruism, sex, and the Internet, Susan Blackmore makes a compelling case for the theory that even our inner conscious self and our sense of free will are illusions created by the memes for the sake of their own replication."

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  • "Mem makinesi : genetik evrimin devamı olarak kültürel evrim"@tr
  • "谜米机器"
  • "La Máquina de los memes"
  • "Teorie memů : kultura a její evoluce"
  • "Meemit - kulttuurigeenit"@fi
  • "The Meme machine"
  • "Mimi ji qi"
  • "La macchina dei memi : perchè i geni non bastano"@it
  • "Die Macht der Meme oder die Evolution von Kultur und Geist"
  • "The Meme Machine"
  • "Mi mi ji qi"
  • "La théorie des mèmes : pourquoi nous nous imitons les uns les autres"
  • "La macchina dei memi : perché i geni non bastano"
  • "The meme machine : [with a foreword by Richard Dawkins]"
  • "La théorie des mèmes pourquoi nous nous imitons les uns les autres"
  • "La máquina de los memes"@es
  • "The meme machine"@en
  • "The meme machine"
  • "˜Dieœ Macht der Meme oder die Evolution von Kultur und Geist"

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