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Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch, 1998-11-27 The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening: FREE YOUR MIND by Jr. Vincent Casspriano, 2008-01-31 The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think by Robert Aunger, 2002-07-02 God Wants You Dead by Sean Hastings, Paul Rosenberg, 2009-03-16 Spiral Dynamics : Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change (Developmental Management) by Don Edward Beck, Christopher C. Cowan, 1996-05-08 Culture, Nature, Memes by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, 2008-01-09 Evil memes: A lexicon by A. R Adams, 1996 Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology by J. M. Balkin, 2003-09-24 The Cess Pit and the Secret Armies by Tim Marsh, 2001-01-30 The Valfet Audio Power Amplifier by Tim Marsh, 2001-11-21 Am I Just a Programmed Organic Machine? by Anthony Johns, 2005-02-15 The Curse of a Nymphomaniac by Anthony Johns, 2009-04 The Fiddle by Anthony Johns, 2002-07-27 Programming Basic for Eternal Life by Tim Marsh, 2001-11-21

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61. Journal Of Memetics
    Journal of memetics AAA48025@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Subject Journal of memeticsSender ownernewjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Precedence bulk To  
    http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/j/msg02377.html

62. Fresh Memes For Independent Minds : Blastfishing / General Memetics Home : Meme
    GENERAL memetics Finest engineered memes anywhere. Recovery Growth - Freedom -Fun Annoying the complacent masses since 7000 BC. Help spread the word  
    http://www.blastfishing.com/

63. Dead Reckoning: Applied Memetics For Disillusioned Dems
    We need to give up on reason and embrace memetics; if we don t, the elephants So how should Democrats counter the powerful memetics of the Republicans?  
    http://nathanpiazza.blogspot.com/2004/11/applied-memetics-for-disillusioned.html
    
    Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=8098971"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/2.css); BlogThis! 1. (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. As I contemplated the depressing outcome of last night's election, one thought kept bugging me. How incompetent can the Democrats be when it comes to the cutting edge of political manipulation? Throughout the Clinton presidency I always felt that the sharpest operators were on the left's side. We controlled cultural discourse. We understood the media. We knew how best to talk to the people about what mattered to them. And frankly, we were better at manipulating our opponents. But I no longer feel that way. Today it's clear that the Republicans understand the media better than we do, and it's time we admitted it to ourselves. Among other things, the biggest difference in the last two years has been, to my mind, the way Republicans have come to understand marketing and ways to use language to control people's thinking.

64. Tim's Brain > Memes : Memetics
    Memes MetaMemes and Politics - Lengthy paper by H. Keith Henson. (Added17-Apr-2001). memetics publications on the web - Huge collection of links.  
    http://www.timsbrain.com/Memes/Memetics/

65. LIQUID <<< Cognitive Research And Creative Knowledge >>>
    memetics is the study of how ideas thrive and are transmitted. Ideas that arepackaged to be healthy, interesting, exciting, compelling, all tend to be  
    http://www.liquidcrack.com/index.cfm
    
    Extractions: Memetics is the study of how ideas thrive and are transmitted. Ideas that are packaged to be healthy, interesting, exciting, compelling, all tend to be transmitted more than others. This glossary is a short overview on how to consider packaging ideas so that they are fit. Select from a list below. Load a new random term A B C ... Z Search Teledildonics Threat Tipping Tipping Point ... TRANSMISSION: The Final part of the 4 part process of meme replication as suggested by Francis Heylighen - assimilation, retention, expression and transmission, each stage containing its own different objective, subjective, intersubjective and meme-centered selection criteria. Selection at the transmission stage happens through either elimination of certain memes, when the vehicle is destroyed or gets corrupted before it is perceived by another individual, or through differential multiplication, when the vehicle is reproduced into many copies. For example, a manuscript may be put into the shredder or it may be turned into a book which is printed in thousands of copies. A radio communication may get lost because of noise, or it may be broadcasted to millions of listeners. Especially since the emergence of mass media, the transmission stage is the one where the contrast between successful and unsuccessful memes is largest, and where selection may have the largest impact. Francis Heylighen - Proc. 15th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internat. de Cybernétique, Namur).

66. MEMETICS; THE NASCENT SCIENCE OF IDEAS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION J
    It is my aim tonight to explore memetics, a science in the early stages of birth . The roots of the idea of memetics as a science lie in the study of  
    http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/memetics/memetics.txt

67. Memetics
    memetics is the theory that ideas spread like viruses or.  
    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...)

68. Blind Mind’s Eye » Blog Archive » Islam And Memetics
    memetics is the study of memes, or as dictionary.com defines meme A unit From a memetics perspective, things instantly begin to change in how we view  
    http://www.blindmindseye.com/2005/07/21/islam-and-memetics/

69. WebCrawler Web Search Home Page
    Search results for memetics from WebCrawler Metasearch.  
    http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?cookie=#####&mode=compact&maxHits=25&

70. Memetics: Definition And Much More From Answers.com
    me·met·ics ( memet iks ) n. (used with a sing. verb) The study of memes andtheir social and cultural effects.  
    http://www.answers.com/topic/memetics
    
    Extractions: Wikipedia memetics Memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme 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 early 1990s, and 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'

71. What's A Meme And Why Would Anyone Make One?
    Dawkin s latest, made available by Cosma Shalizi; HyperWeird memetics Onar Aam s papers on memetics; Hans-Cees on memetics; Marius Watz s memetics  
    http://www.meme.com/memedef/
    
    Extractions: Pronounced: `meem What is a meme? A meme is an idea, or a particular way of thinking about what an idea is. A meme is a unit of mental information in the same way that a gene is a unit of biological information a metaphor of an idea as a transposon, a pattern of thought as a virus, a knowledge structure as a chromosome. Memes compete to spread their information though a social population in the same ways genes compete to spread their information content through a biological population. Here is what Eric Watt Forste has to say about memes: Human knowledge evolves by mechanisms similar to biological evolution: over the long run, by blind variation, accurate replication, and selective elimination. The term which encapsulates this metaphor with genes is "meme". A whole new school of thinking about knowledge is developing out of the confluence of meme idea on the one hand, and the pancritical epistemology of William Bartley and Sir Karl Popper Drexler on Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge Dawkin's latest, made available by Cosma Shalizi

72. Memes: The Memetics Section Of The Meme Machine
    Memes. The memetics Section of Debate Unlimited Isn t memetics just anothermeme? Yes, but what does that prove?  
    http://www.mwillett.org/Memes/meme1.htm
    
    Extractions: The Memetics Section of Debate Unlimited Atheism Politics Memes Mind Matters Interact Feedback ... Home Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man Good question, there would not be much point in going any further in this zone until you found out what memes were. And it is better to learn about them from somebody who knows, isn't it? I bet I know what aliens will believe... More about the beliefs of aliens Later thoughts on the beliefs of aliens The issue of is and ought, especially in relation to evolution. The self and the lies told in its name The memetic analysis of Christianity The memetic analysis of why people do such crazy things Correspondence between myself and Susan Blackmore Correspondence with a (the?) Christian who is not woefully ignorant Isn't memetics just another meme? Yes, but what does that prove? Why I want to lose my bet

73. Memetics
    New Dawn is a journal devoted to publishing ideas and information that aredangerous, unusual and challenging.  
    http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/Memetics.html
    
    Extractions: MEMETICS The word ‘meme’ was first popularly used by Richard Dawkins in his book, The Selfish Gene . The word ‘meme’ has come to mean a cultural accretion of knowledge, a package of several ideas that can be passed onto others. It’s usually more complex than a single idea, and can represent a fashion/music/lifestyle or a belief. It is the mental equivalent of a gene whereby a package of many attributes is passed on.       The science or study of memes in action has come to be called memetics.       A meme has been regarded too narrowly I believe, and I am interested in broadening the definition of a meme. No matter how narrow a definition you give to a meme, sooner or later you have to consider more nebulous or abstract ideas as having acquired enough cultural accretion to have become memes. It’s easy to conceive of a visual fad such as the hula-hoop as having a chartable spread through society and calling it a meme, but surely socialism, futurism or a new political idea are also memes that spread through society.

74. Memetics - Enpsychlopedia
    memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transferbased on the It uses material from the Wikipedia article memetics .  
    http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Memetics
    
    Extractions: home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Advertisement ( 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 2 Open questions 3 See also 4 References ... edit 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 early 1990s, and 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'

75. Religion And Memetics: The God Meme
    Does Darwin s theory of evolution apply not just to animals (genes) but also toideas (memes), including Christianity and God? Can memetics explain away  
    http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/memetics.html
    
    Extractions: Seeks to expose Christianity as a ‘mind virus’, controlling human behaviour to facilitate its own survival. Evolutionary theory has revolutionised modern thought. The way that we understand the world has been profoundly influenced by Darwin’s insight into the way that natural selection guides progress over time. Recently, it has been recognised that Darwin’s theory applies not only to biological organisms but also to ideas. Some, such as Richard Dawkins , Susan Blackmore, and Daniel Dennett, have argued that this provides an explanation of religious belief, and that this explanation counts against the idea that such beliefs are true. Darwin’s theory of evolution sought to explain the diversity of species in the world in the following way: The world contains only a limited supply of the resources necessary to support life. Organisms must therefore compete with each other for these resources in order to survive.

76. Del.icio.us/sebpaquet/memetics
    Connotea Bookmarks matching tag memeticsBookmarks matching tag memetics. This is a list of the articles and links thathave been posted by Connotea users using the tag memetics.  
    http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/memetics
    
    Extractions: memetics from all users Can you make the next Dancing Baby, All Your Base, or Star Wars Kid and ride into the sunset with the bounty? This is your chance to prove you are the best in the West. (Technorati prize, Alexa price, CC prize) to memetics and 143 other people ... on 2005-04-11 Webjay tracks songs hopping across people's playlists to memetics musiclogging ... on 2005-02-15 we find that it's not the location of the store relative to the customers that's important, it's the location of the existing customer relative to potential customers. to memetics ... on 2004-11-30 Species reinvent the wheel: "Although many genes serve nearly identical functions in species as distant as mammals and insects, they come by their similarity only by inheritance, not by communication." to memetics ... on 2004-08-16

77. Connotea Ttoille S Bookmarks Matching Tag Memetics
    Ttoille s bookmarks matching tag memetics. Center for Human Emergence (info).http//www.humanemergence.org/home.html. Posted by Ttoille to social change  
    http://www.connotea.org/user/Ttoille/tag/memetics

78. Memetics
    A weblog dedicated to science, philosophy, education and freedom.  
    http://www.drmenlo.com/abuddha/memetics.html
    
    Extractions: subject consciousness entheogens gen. science memetics philosophy physics echalon misc. While Darwinizing Culture provided scientific validity for industrial age genocide, I think we are now either headed for the endplay of cultural Darwinism as represented by capitalist scientism ( A Short History of the Metameme ), or the beginning of an age of transcultural humanism informing the ethical appropriation of scientific understanding. "Dan Dennett has argued that Darwin's "dangerous idea" is an abstract algorithm, often called the "replicator dynamic". This dynamic consists of repeated iterations of selection from among randomly mutating replicators according to some criterion. Replicators, in turn, are units of information with the ability to reproduce themselves using resources from some material substrate." Reflexive Ethnographic Science (a proposed book) "As a contribution to a scientific cultural anthropology, it constitutes a foil to those in cultural studies and related fields who deride the possibility of verifiable ethnographic representations. Instead, it points the way toward a unique combination of traditional and post-modern objectives in effect, a reflexive ethnographic science." Robert Aunger, author of the above article, has an abiding interest in testing the memetic model within cultural anthropology.

79. Minding The Planet: Memes & Memetics
    We might label those past attempts as macromemetics because they are chieflyfocused on gaining a macroscopic understanding of how ideas move and evolve.  
    http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/memes_memetics/
    
    Extractions: About First of all I know Clay Shirky , and he's a good fellow. But he's simply wrong about his claim that "tagging" (of the flavor that is appearing on del.icio.us what I call "social tagging") is inherently better than the use of formal ontologies. Clay favors the tagging approach because it is bottom-up and emergent in nature, and he argues against ontologies because pre-specification cannot anticipate the future. But this is a simplistic view of both approaches. One could just as easily argue against tagging systems because they don't anticipate the future they are shortsighted, now-oriented systems that fail to capture the "big picture" or to optimally organize resources for the long-term. Their saving grace is that over time they do (hopefully) self-organize and prune out the chaff, but that depends both on the level of participation and the quality of that participation.

80. Glenn Grant - Memetics
    I was also convinced that memetics was an important new paradigm, one that provideduseful critical tools for thinking about why we believe the things we  
    http://www.istop.com/~ggrant/memes.html
    
    Extractions: Meme Depot : Memetics meme (pron. meem ) A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (The word "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. Read "A Memetic Lexicon" Do you host a version of "A Memetic Lexicon" on your website? Please read this important notice. And here's a short yet self-indulgent history of the Lexicon, if anyone is interested... "Memes & Me" Glenn Grant I first encountered the meme about memes in Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas , a collection of his wonderful columns for Scientific American . His articles on memes got me all fired up, setting off ideas like a chain-reaction of fireworks. One of the resulting starbursts was my first-published short story, Memetic Drift . The second explosion was a weird little piece called "A Memetic Lexicon"

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