1. Memetics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia memetics is a neoDarwinian approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme. Started from a metaphor used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

Memetics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is related to the study of self-replicating units of culture. For the mathematical concept, see Mimetic ; for the biological, see Mimicry Memetics is a neo-Darwinian approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme . Started from a metaphor used in popular writings of Richard Dawkins, it has later turned into an approach in the study of self-replicating units of culture. It has been proposed that just as memes are analogous to genes , memetics is analogous to genetics Contents History of the term Internalists and externalists Maturity Critique ... edit History of the term In his book The Selfish Gene (1976), the ethologist Richard Dawkins used the term " meme " to describe a unit of human cultural transmission 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 – that is, it has causal agency – 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 behaviour and ultimately culture, since the principal topic of the book was genetics. Dawkins apparently did not intend to present a comprehensive theory of

2. Memetics Meme an information pattern, held in an individual s memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual s memory. memetics the theoretical and http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html

Memetics Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes Cultural evolution, including the evolution of knowledge , can be modelled through the same basic principles of variation and selection that underly biological evolution . This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication : a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme. This process of self-reproduction (the memetic life-cycle ), leading to spreading over a growing group of individuals, defines the meme as a replicator, similar in that respect to the gene (Dawkins, 1976; Moritz, 1991). Dawkins listed the following three characteristics for any successful replicator: copying-fidelity: the more faithful the copy, the more will remain of the initial pattern after several rounds of copying. If a painting is reproduced by making photocopies from photocopies, the underlying pattern will quickly become unrecognizable.

3. Memetics Collection of links and essays about memes ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. 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

4. 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

5. Journal Of Memetics - Evolutionary Models Of Information Transmission Journal of memetics Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission. 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 at http://jom-emit.org but after 3 years nothing has happened. Note, the links here are currently broken, but will be fixed soon! 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

6. 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?

7. Memetics A school of thought called memetics has become more and more prominent in various fields such as antropology, psychology, linguistics, marketing, http://memetics.chielens.net/

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Memetics Home Memetics 101 Master's Thesis PhD ... Muttering Heights Welcome Welcome Memes are hot. Since Richard Dawkins talked about them in his revolutionary book The Selfish Gene a lot has been said and written about cultural evolution and the spreading of culture based on the principles of natural selection. A school of thought called memetics has become more and more prominent in various fields such as antropology, psychology, linguistics, marketing, computerscience and architecture. The field has developed from a theoretical field to an applied science. Memetics is predominantly used as an applied science in marketing and computerscience and has thus faced the challenges from quite some of its critics. As one of the researchers that has stood up to the challenges set by various other scientists I have applied memetics to the field of linguistics and have been able to make a quantitative study, thus refuting the claim that memetics is only a vague theory with loosely based concepts. From my 2003 study I have created 'Memetics 101' to provide an introduction to the field of memetics. Both novice and beginning memeticist can find basic information about memetics. A further exploration of my master's thesis can be found under that heading whereas my further research can be found in the PhD section. I hope that you find this page an interesting stop on your journey through memetics and am looking forward to your feedback!

8. Memetics www.uio.no/~mwatz/memetics/ Similar pages memetics papers on the webAn index of hundreds of free, on-line papers and articles about meme theory. http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/memetics/

9. Alt.memetics Resources memetics is the theory of cultural replicators, based on Daniel Dennett s philosophyof-mind and the sociobiology of Richard Dawkins. http://www.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/index.html

Virus! FAQ alt.memetics last updated: May 5, 1997 Memetics is the theory of cultural replicators, based on Daniel Dennett 's philosophy-of-mind and the sociobiology of Richard Dawkins . Memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution , a process which is treated as technically equivalent to biological (genetic) evolution. This concept is discussed in the alt.memetics newsgroup. "What is a meme?" Informal definitions Memetics on the Internet . On-line available articles, web-pages. Bibliography assembled by the newsgroup alt.memetics archives . Selected threads July 1994 - June 1995. Memetics on the Internet Introductions Francis Heylighen: Memetics (Principia Cybernetica Web) James Tilton: Memes, Catchphrase of a New Generation! Glenn Grant: Memes: Introduction Peter Vajk: Memetics: the nascent science of ideas and their transmission On-line texts David Brin: The New Meme Luc Claeys: Behavior of Information Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind Mike Godwin: Meme, Counter-meme Ron Hale-Evans: Memetics: A Systems Metabiology Joe Formoso: Memes, and Grinning Idiot Press

10. Journal Of Memetics - Aims And Scope A peerreviewed academic journal discussing views and research in evolutionary models of information transmission. http://www.jom-emit.org/

About Current Issue Past Issues History ... Submissions The Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT) is an international, peer-refereed, scientific journal. It is intended as a forum for academics and professionals to discuss their research on the spread of information from an evolutionary point of view. The journal is published on the web without subscription fee, proposing two issues per year since 1997 (see the history . Since 2005, the journal is edited by Francis Heylighen, assisted by the managing editor Klaas Chielens. The general policy is determined by the editorial and advisory boards , including many of the experts in the domain. Subject Domain: Memetics In the words of of its inventor, Richard Dawkins, the word "meme" refers to "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation". More precisely, a meme can be defined as an information pattern, held in an individual's memory or in an outside artefact (e.g. book, record or tool), which is likely to be communicated or copied to another individual's memory. Examples of memes are ideas, technologies, theories, songs, fashions, and traditions. This covers all forms of beliefs, values and behaviors that are normally taken over from others rather than discovered independently. Memetics is the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes. It core idea is that memes differ in their degree of "fitness", i.e. adaptation to the socio-cultural environment in which they propagate. Because of natural selection, fitter memes will be more successful in being communicated, "infecting" a larger number of individuals and/or surviving for a longer time within the population. Memetics tries to understand what characterizes fit memes, and how they affect individuals, organizations, cultures and society at large.

11. Index Read my follow up to Massimo Pigliucci s objections to memetics originally published in the September/October edition of the Skeptical Inquirer. http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/

Home MemeLab Links Publications ... Back to Sue's site New Genes, memes, and temes and just published Imitation makes us human Extract Iain Gardner has used a meme copying experiment based on Durer's Rhinoceros to produce this animation The Loo Roll meme ! More criticisms from Mary Midgley French memes! Now out - The Meme Machine in French. "La théorie des mèmes" Paris, Max Milo, published 23 Feb 2006 and see the interview in NextModernity Library. Also Pascal Jouxtel Comment les systèmes pondent : Une introduction à la mémétique Translations Hebrew Memes! Interview with Sue "Waking from the meme dream" now in Spanish Danger! Dangerous ideas! Astrophysicist, Paul Davies, writes on free will and memes. Virus of the mind Jolyon Troscianko Memetics UK This site began with the Bristol based memelab , but I have taken it over and made it part of my own site. It can now be accessed through www.memetics.com as well. I hope to provide a simple, but useful, resource for finding out what is happening in the world of memes and memetics.

12. Memes alt.memetics home page great place to start; The AFU Urban Legands Archive Meta-Memes and Politics and Cryonics, religions and memetics (with Arel 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

13. Memetics: A Systems Metabiology In this paper, I will present an application of general systems theory to memetics, the study of memes. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the 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)

14. Memes.org: Mind Viruses | Culture, Science, Politics, & Religion Through A Memet Here is a primer on memetics that David dropped of here in the forums. It is basic and general but it is in fact about memetics, at a basic level, http://memes.org/

@import "/files/css/bb856fdf9a4d8009fe29831029039650.css"; Join Memes Definition of Meme Forums Everything you see below is written by the memebers of Memes.org. Memes is a collaborative site. All articles are produced by us, for us. When you join Memes , you can post articles right away. Please be a part of our site! You're encouraged to register and participate in meme-making along with us. We can't wait to read you. MIB (Memes in Black) are after Mr. Scrap and You By semjaza - Posted on March 29th, 2008 Add new comment Read more 20 reads By admin - Posted on March 29th, 2008 Tagged: John Titor time travel time traveler time travelling More super-cool writings from the time traveler, John Titor, from the eponymous site, JohnTitor.com Add new comment Read more 48 reads by admin Hundreds of Tibetans Shot in the Beginning of the Lasse Riots By admin - Posted on March 29th, 2008 Tagged: buddhism china civil rights Human Rights ... tibet My contact in Nepal reports 2000 people are apparently going to be executed and the world knows nothings... Tibetans are saying 100's were shot in the beginning.

15. Memetics The Nascent Science Of Ideas And Their memetics; THE NASCENT SCIENCE OF IDEAS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION J. Peter Vajk An Essay Presented to the Outlook Club Berkeley, California January 19, http://evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/memetics/memetics.txt

16. Organisational Memetics Unlike their biological counterparts they can exert conscious choice and puncture the memetic codes that seek to keep them stable; the mental models of http://members.aol.com/ifprice/orgmem.html

Organisational Memetics?: Organisational Learning as a Selection Process Management Learning, 1995 26: 299-318 If Price Active Personal Learning, Pewley Fort, Pewley Hill, Guildford GU1 3SP UK [and a Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield, UK] ABSTRACT Companies are not only systems created and controlled by those who manage them but also self-organising entities that evolve through learning. Whereas an organism is a creation of natural replicators, genes, an organisation can be seen as a product of an alternative replicator, the meme or mental model, acting, like a gene, to preserve itself in an Evolutionary Stable System. The result is an organisation which self organises around a set of unspoken and unwritten rules and assumptions. Biological evolution is stimulated by environmental change and reproductive isolation; the process of punctuated equilibrium . Corporate innovation shows the same pattern. Innovations in products and processes occur in groups isolated from prevailing mental norms. Successful organic strains possess a genetic capability for adaptation. Organisations which wish to foster learning can develop an equivalent, mental capability. Unlike their biological counterparts they can exert conscious choice and puncture the memetic codes that seek to keep them stable; the mental models of individuals, and the strategies, paradigms and unwritten rules at the company level.

17. ``Memes, The New Replicators'' The text that started off the science of memetics. http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html

http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html Dec. 1999 Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' [ First published 1976; 1989 edition: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-286092-5 (paperback) ], the best short introduction to, and the text that kicked off, the new science of MEMETICS (and, also, the text where Dawkins coined the term ` meme The following, key, paragraph of this chapter may perhaps serve as an abstract: The notes (1), (2), ... are from the 1989 edition. Highlights ** and text in square brackets are not original. 11. Memes: the new replicators So far, I have not talked much about man in particular, though I have not deliberately excluded him either. Part of the reason I have used the term `survival machine' is that `animal' would have left out plants and, in some people's minds, humans. The arguments I have put forward should, prima facie, apply to any evolved being. If a species is to be excepted, it must be for good reasons. Are there any good reasons for supposing our own species to be unique ? I believe the answer is yes. Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word: `culture'. I use the word not in its snobbish sense, but as a scientist uses it. Cultural transmission is analogous to genetic transmission in that, although basically conservative, it can give rise to a form of evolution. Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman, even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen, each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father. Language seems to `evolve' by non-genetic means, and at a rate which is orders of magnitude faster than genetic evolution.

18. Memetics memetics postulates that roles and even unwitting allegiances to memes, are transferable. Let s take an idea such as sunflowers . http://soli.com/jhardy/memetics.txt

19. What Is A Meme Idea Replication Systems Thought Virus Marketing Communications memetics is vital to the understanding of cults, ideologies, and marketing The new science of marketing is all about memetics, memetic engineering, http://intelegen.com/meme/meme.htm

A meme (pronounced "meem") I s an idea that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the meme similar to the way a t-phage virus reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium. Unlike a virus, which is encoded in DNA molecules, a meme is nothing more than a pattern of information, one that happens to have evolved a form which induces people to repeat that pattern. The information pattern is held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Individual slogans, ideas, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashion are typical memes. W hether memes can be considered true life forms or not is a topic of some debate, but this is irrelevant: they behave in a way similar to life forms, allowing us to combine the analytical techniques of epidemiology, evolutionary science, immunology, linguistics, and semiotics, into an extremely effective system known as "memetics". Rather than debate the inherent "truth" or lack of "truth" in an idea, memetics is largely concerned with how that idea itself gets replicated. Memetics is vital to the understanding of cults, ideologies, and marketing campaigns of all kinds, and it provides the best immunity from dangerous information-contagions. It is also about protecting yourself from bad ones.

20. 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 http://www.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

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