Open Directory - Science: Biology: Sociobiology: Memetics
See also: - 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. - The text that started off the science of memetics. - Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how. - FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, "Virus of the Mind".) - A detailed site maintained by the psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore. - Blog discussing what memes are, what can we do with them, who controls who, what drives them and are memes real? - A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links. - A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria. - Information from Wikipedia on this neo-Darwinian approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme. - Explores the nature of a meme, memetic theory and culture relating to evolution. - 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. - The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical phrase, or even a single note? - 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. - Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. - Includes texts by Dr Susan Blackmore and links to other articles online. - Essay/review of The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. (October 01, 2002)
