21. Memetics Collection of links and essays about memes ideas and concepts viewed as livingorganisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, 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

22. Centre For Policy Modelling Home Page Simplicity is no reason, difficulty is no excuse. Publishers of the Journal of memetics http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/

Centre for Policy Modelling "Simplicity is no reason, difficulty is no excuse Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Aytoun Building, Aytoun Street, Manchester how to find us or contact us Current/Recent Stuff: Centre for Policy Modelling Discussion Papers Most recent Paper The CAVES Project (2005-2008, an EU 6FP STREP - under the NEST programme The Nania Project (2004-2008/9, funded through the EPSRC Novel Computation Initiative The NeWater Project (2005-2008, an EU 6FP IP project - under the Global Change and Ecosystems priority Papers from the AISB Workshop on: Socially inspired computing - engineering with social metaphors ... The Application of Agent-based simulation to Social and organisational domains A special section of JASSS on: The Use of Logic in Agent-based Social Simulation The European Social Simulation Society Older stuff: th Multi-agent Based Simulation Workshop @AAMAS 2003, Australia. Tutorial on Socially Intelligent Agents SAB'02, Edinburgh, August 2002 - Model to Model workshop , Marseilles, 31 st March-1 st April 2003 and the Special Section of JASSS that resulted.

23. Memetic Algorithms' Home Page Schulz comments on this ``The second one which hovers a little on the border of how wide you define memetics (or hybrid) ga's is Juerg http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

24. The Lifecycle Of Memes In memetics, ideas are viewed as almost independent creatures in a In thefield of memetics there are a couple of different definitions of host , http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/memecycle.html

The Lifecycle of Memes By Henrik Bjarneskans, Bjarne Grønnevik and Anders Sandberg Abstract Memes, self reproducing mental information structures analogous to genes in biology, can be seen as the basis for an explanatory model of cultural and psychological behaviour. Their properties and effects are evolutionary conditioned and ultimately seeks to promote their replication. To survive in a context the memes must meet certain conditions. We abstract a model of these conditions and use it to analyse three well-known memes: the "Kilroy was here" graffiti, urban legends and Christianity. Table of Contents Abstract 1. What is a Meme? 1.1 Defining Memes 1.2. Issues in Memetics ... References 1. What is a Meme? Memes were originally described by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or building arches. Just as genes propagate in the gene pool 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. What makes the meme concept so powerful is its close analogies to the theory of natural selection. Natural selection occurs whenever the following conditions exist (Dennet 1990):

25. MemeMachineGo! Links and thoughts on memetics, science, writing, bicycling, fitness, anarchy, geekery, humor, comics, science fiction, technology, politics, magick, and Berkeley. http://www.mememachinego.com/

MemeMachineGo! Wouldn't you like to be a vector, too? It's not funny, 'cause it's true America, your man is no good. posted by Zed on September 16 2005 04:55. Comments (0) Chain Reaction This flash game posted by Zed on September 15 2005 21:12. Comments (0) I, for one, do not welcome our new oligarchic overlords Even the Economist is willing to mention that U.S. social mobility is on the decline I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Truly, the Republican party can make America what it once was. posted by Zed on September 15 2005 21:05. Comments (1) Understanding Neurotypicality Neurotypicality is not likely to be in an edition of the DSM any time soon. Neurotypicality is a pervasive developmental condition, probably present since birth, in which the affected person sees the world in a very strange manner. It is a puzzle; a enigma that traps those so affected in a lifelong struggle for social status and recognition. Neurotypical individuals almost invariably show a triad of impairments, consisting of inability to think independently of the social group, marked impairment in the ability to think logically or critically, and inability to form special interests (other than in social activity). It is my hope that this article will help us understand the very different world of the neurotypical. posted by Zed on September 15 2005 20:06.

26. Alt.memetics Resources memetics on the Internet http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

27. Memetics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of Aaron Lynchdisowned the memetics community and the words meme and memetics (without http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

Memetics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme Contents History of the term Open questions Terminology MemeBot ... edit History of the term In his book The Selfish Gene (1976), the ethologist Richard Dawkins 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. The modern memetics movement dates from the mid 1980s (a January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter in Scientific American was influential). The study differs from mainstream cultural evolutionary theory in that its practitioners frequently come from outside of the fields of anthropology and sociology, and are often not academics. The massive popular impact of Dawkins'

28. Ð ¡ § © Ø ® Ð ¦ Å ñ . C O M Sections on sex, memetics, selfillumination, networking, daily life, and links. http://www.discordian.com/

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29. Memetic Lexicon (GMG) MEMETICIST 1. One who studies memetics. 2. A memetic engineer. (GMG) memetics The study of memes and their social effects. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

30. Meme - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia memetics, the study of memes, remains a controversial field among many scientistsand memetics originated when Richard Dawkins reduced the process of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Meme From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The term meme pronounced [miːm] in IPA ; from the Greek word for ' memory ') first appeared in the book by Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene . (Some trace the concept to the book by Francois Jacob La logique du vivant The Logic Of Life ).) Though Dawkins defined the meme as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation," memeticists vary in their definitions of meme . The lack of a consistent, rigorous and precise definition of a meme remains one of the principal criticisms leveled at memetics , the study of memes. Different definitions of the meme generally agree, very roughly, that a meme consists of some sort of a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics ). Dawkins introduced the term after writing that evolution depended not on the particular chemical basis of genetics, but only on the existence of a self-replicating unit of transmission—in the case of biological evolution, the gene. For Dawkins, the meme exemplifies another self-replicating unit, and most importantly, one which he thought would prove useful in explaining human behavior and cultural evolution. The smiley exemplifies what some might consider a visual meme. Anyone who has seen a smiley can copy, reproduce, or modify it and then show it to others.

31. The Church Of Virus It might infect your mind. General 'beliefs' are a mixture of Humanism, Atheism, and Darwinism, set upon a understanding of memetics. http://virus.lucifer.com/

32. Alt.memetics Resources memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution, This concept is discussed in the alt.memetics newsgroup. http://maxwell.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/

33. Brent Silby Base Page/Attract Screen Provides a number of ePapers on consciousness, memetics, evolution, and the philosophy of mind. http://www.geocities.com/brent_silby/

BRENT SILBY Designer of Videogames Writer of philosophical articles Essays, Articles, and e-papers A collection of ePapers and articles that can be viewed and used for FREE. Please remember to keep Philosophy honest and cite any intellectual material that you use. Whether it is found in a book, journal, or on the internet it is important to provide references to all the material that you use. A list of interesting sites A selection of Links to interesting sites. Forums Listed here are some of the discussion groups an forums I participate in. These are all open and people from all backgrounds are encouraged to join. DEF-LOGIC Productions Here you can play free web based video games that I have designed. Free games I have created a page on this site, which contains links to the videogames I've written. They are all hosted at my Def-Logic site. Who is Brent Silby? "I was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1970. In 1988 I became a sound and lighting engineeroperating sound systems and light-shows for bands and other productions. Through my contacts in that industry, I changed profession and became a nightclub DJ in 1990. During the daylight hours, I ran a computer graphics business, which involved the production of animated cartoon commercials for a local network of video screens. The business also gave me the opportunity to produce a 30 minute long animated Nursery Rhyme video (for children under 5 years old), which was marketed throughout New Zealand and Australia by the Hughes Leisure Group.

34. 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

35. Www.uio.no/~mwatz/memetics/ www.memetics.org/ memetics.co.ukThe website for memetics.co.uk can be found by clicking here. memetics.co.uk isregistered through Easily.co.uk get web site hosting or domain name http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/memetics/

36. 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 Jörg Heitkötter, 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

37. Memetic Scienc: General Introduction Discussions of the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer, with focus on creativity, memes, replicators, language, ideas, evolution, computers, viruses, knowledge, artificial intelligence, brain and the mind. http://databank.oxydex.com/m2.html

Page Sponsors and Useful Links Related Books (in alphabetical order) Great Minds a reason for inquiry ... The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, Richard Dawkins. Thought Contagion : How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch. Virus of the Mind : The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie. Additional Readings Journal of Ideas (description) Databank Informatorium Resource Links Principia Cybernetica Journal of Memetics (Online) Cited Authors: K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation Nanosystems : Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) The Meme Machine Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder ... Climbing Mount Improbable E. O. Wilson and C. Lumsden Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (this book, despite all the hoopla - really moved the debate forward) Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind Sociobiology: The Abridged Edition Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge On Human Nature ... There's a Hair in My Dirt! : A Worm's Story Douglas Hofstatder Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid

38. Memetics This introduction to memetics is based on the first chapter of my master s thesis.For the full text, see the item Master s Thesis in the left menu. http://memetics.chielens.net/memetics.html

Memetics Who am I Memetics Master's Thesis Phd. ... Links Introduction The Selfish Gene This introduction to memetics is based on the first chapter of my master's thesis. For the full text, see the item Master's Thesis in the left menu. Introduction A definition of Memes Memes as Replicators Memeplexes ... Klaas Chielens

39. Memes alt.memetics home page great place to start; The AFU Urban Legands Journal of memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission - the first http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Catalano/rl_memes.sht

Links: memetics alt.memetics home page - great place to start Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission the first peer-reviewed journal about memetics - online and free! ( Dawkins is on advisory board) Yahoo!: Memetics Essays / Papers: Papers by Keith Henson Memes, Meta-Memes and Politics and Cryonics, religions and memetics (with Arel Lucas) On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures by Douglas R. Hofstadter Chain Letter Evolution by Daniel W. VanArsdale Of Man, Mind and Machine: Meme-Based Models of Mind and the Possibility for Consciousness in Alternate Media Books: The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore

40. Memetics: A Systems Metabiology We can use memetics as an important method for studying the spread of memetics, though valuable, until now has for the most part used a model of linear http://ron.ludism.org/memetics.html

Memetics: A Systems Metabiology Links Go Key Resource Memetics Topic This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit Here Memetics: A Systems Metabiology Version 950220 Ron Hale-Evans rwhe@ludism.org Note: This paper is close to completion, but there are still rough spots where elaboration is needed; in some places you will see notes from and to myself on what needs to be changed. I was asked by a friend to put a "pre-release" version online. Comments are very welcome and may shape the final version of this paper. In this paper, I will present an application of general systems theory to memetics, the study of memes. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" to describe the similarity of ideas to genes. Dawkins says of memes in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene 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 leaping 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. Researchers have also likened memes to viruses or germs in that they often seem to come and go in waves, much as epidemics of biological organisms do. One can take Nazism as perhaps the most familiar example of what can happen when a fanatic ideology spreads and gathers many followers. The memetic plague at Jonestown proved just as fatal for the followers of Jim Jones as any biological plague would have, possibly more so. (Henson 1987)

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