61. Memetics & Materialism By Jason Godesky At Nerdshit In order to more effectively advance their social agenda, the prophets introduced a new memetic variation monotheism. The prophets no longer referred to http://www.nerdshit.com/wordpress/2005/12/29/memetics-materialism-by-jason-godes

Nerdshit Home About Register ... FAA Releases Space Tourism Regulations Published by DrQuickbeam on December 29, 2005 in Anthropology Biology Fundamentalism History/Archaeology ... Society/Social Systems and Uncategorized Take, for example, the emergence of Judaism as we know it today. Archaeological evidence—and even “reading between the lines” of the Tanakh—reveals that the original form of Judaism was, aside from its progressive social program, a very typical Bronze Age religion. It was a state religion that provided a foundation myth for the state, and relied on a “spirit of the place” form of monolatry. The God of Israel is presented not as the only god, but either as the best or highest god or, more commonly, our god—the only god we pay attention to. Monolatry is typically quite tolerant of other religions, so it should come as no surprise that another local god, Baal, became competition for early Judaism. The prophets’ message was primarily a social one centered around caring for the poor and other radical, progressive goals. Such goals were rather unique to the Jewish religion, and obviously such priorities were not shared by Baal. In order to more effectively advance their social agenda, the prophets introduced a new memetic variation: monotheism. The prophets no longer referred to the God of Israel as the best or highest god, but as the only God. Anthropik Network Memetics has a strange relationship with primitivism. The primitivist critique of civilization draws much from Marvin Harris’s theory of cultural materialism—a post-Marxist theory which retains Marx’s idea of history driven by material factors rather than “great men and great deeds,” but eschewing Marx’s ultimately apocalyptic vision of an inevitable classless utopia. Primitivism critiques civilization on the grounds of cultural materialism as an inherently broken system. Much of it is based in systems thinking, arguing that civilization is systemically flawed because its scale is maladapted to humans, and its need to constantly grow is, in any finite universe, unsustainable.

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

63. Memetics In Literature And Composition This site is about using the theory of memetics to. Situate yourself within (read) a text (determine what it means to you/ everyone else) http://users.ipfw.edu/waldschg/

Memetics in Literature and Composition (welcome to g.b. waldschmidt's web page) This site is about using the theory of Memetics to: Situate yourself within (read) a text (determine what it means to you/ everyone else) Compose a text (so it means something to everyone else/ you) Understand why composing/situation matters who is this guy? What kind of Moonbeam Theory is this? Who cares? What about the weird motorcycle? History (preliminary links) Theory Critical Theory for Text Analysis Reading The Thesis Writing Thanks for all the fish... For my Students W-233 STUDENTS GO HERE W-131 STUDENTS GO HERE P-131 STUDENTS GO HERE Links Shamelessly Ripped-off... This is the first Web Page I've ever designed and it's always under construction So is the Theory . So is my Life . Most of my mind The experiment requires you to continue. Recommended Reading Although I subscribe to Salon , two of the coolest pubs I have found on the web recently are Edge (with a good discussion of memes ) and Stay Free!

64. Symbian In Motion » Memetics July 16th, 2007 Category memetics. A few fun memes have been flying around lately and I’ve been tagged with a few of them. The “8 Random Things” meme http://news.mobile9.com/s60apps/category/memetics/

Symbian in Motion About The Authors Business Services Archive for the 'memetics' Category 5 Blogs That I Read memetics S60 theming master p@sco The Rules: Name five blogs from different countries that you read Those five bloggers are tagged with this meme and should participate (if they choose) The Blogs: Mobile Point View (USA) (Pakistan) E61 Effect (Germany) click here for an English translation Living with a Nokia N95 (UK) mTrends (Spain) Happy reading :) subscribe to comments made about this post 3 comments memetics Symbiano-Tek favorites , but I can surely talk about a few that have been getting a lot of face time on my E61i these days. Jaiku Palringo vocal IM (aka Walkie-Talkie/PTT) S60 Internet Radio - At my office we try to limit unnecessary bandwidth consumption for a number of reasons and this was a big problem for me until I cam across the S60 Internet Radio app. This open source freeware app from Nokia lets me listen to all of my favorite internet radio stations over my EDGE/WLAN connection and I would be lost without it. Handy Weather NStarter atmaspheric endeavors subscribe to comments made about this post ... memetics Olly of without hyphens First the rules: We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.

65. Memetics » Matjjin-nehen memetics. Archived Posts from this Category. Mon 24 Dec 2007 and since TLAC isn’t a very memetic sort of blog, I’ll certainly expect him to ignore it. http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/category/memetics/

@import url( http://www.matjjin-nehen.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/connections-reloaded-15/style.css ); Gorun Barri-miya? memetics Archived Posts from this Category Mon 24 Dec 2007 Posted by jangari under Writing memetics [5] Comments A couple of weeks ago, Will Owen tagged me for an Aboriginal internet meme , whereby I have to list 8 answers to each of 8 questions. I started writing a lengthy post, but while I was trying to smooth out the formatting I had a hard drive failure on my near-new laptop and lost all my data, not to mention my entire Windows installation and all my programs. The draft post was among the casualties. Yesterday though, Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town , among other blogs, tagged me for A roar for powerful words (original here ), a considerably less time-consuming meme, where I just have to expose my three tips for good blog writing. I suppose then that this is certainly not Ignore what your English teacher told you good writing, not correct writing, and even that takes for granted the entire debate over what correct means.

66. Memetics New Paradigm Organisation Consulting offers Organisation Change Development focusing on culture and relationships within complex systems. http://www.new-paradigm.co.uk/memetics.htm

Introduction A good starting point is the entry for 'memes' in the Principia Cybernetica Alt-memetics has lots of links to articles and other memetics sites Meme Central is run by Richard Brodie, one of the principal authors of MS Word and author of Virus of the Mind. As well as many good links and resources, you can subscribe to the free newsletter Meme Update and also read the introduction to his book. Useful articles: Evolution, Selfishness and Cooperation by Francis Heylighen Books include: Blackmore, Susan 2000. The Meme Machine. Oxford University Press. Brodie, Richard 1995. Virus of the Mind. Integral Press. Dennett, Daniel C. 1995. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Dennett gives a philosophical perspective on Darwinism. The book includes a good exposition of Richard Dawkins' notion of 'memes'. Lynch, Aaron Thought contagion: how belief spreads through society . Basic Books. Shifting the Patterns: Breaking the Memetic Codes of Corporate Performance. Chalford, Gloucs.: Management Books 2000. Up Home var sc_project=1876864; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=17; var sc_security="6c02a2a8";

67. Memetics Were it not for the memetic engineering of the superbrights and hyperturings over the mass of society, the galaxy would schism into warring factions, chaos, http://www.orionsarm.com/topics/memetics.html

Home Topics Knowledge Base Applied Arts and Sciences Memetics Home Topics Society, Culture, Civilization Policies Memetics Memetics The Meme is mightier than the Nuke. Finnegan "Jerry" Dann [Interplanetary Age Social Engineer, Avalon Orbital] Ideas have power, they insinuate themselves, perpetuate, reproduce, subvert, mutate. How much more so those ideas deliberately seeded in order to engineer social trends and both mass and individual opinion? Were it not for the memetic engineering of the superbrights and hyperturings over the mass of society, the galaxy would schism into warring factions, chaos, intolerance, bigotry, and superstition. Applied Memetics is what holds interstellar civilization together over vast distances. It is also (along with the Distributed Information Net ) one of the most important inventions of the information age Memes are socially inherited ideas that determine what people think and believe; memetics is the social and cultural sphere what genetics is to the biological. Sophont beings adopt a conception of God or deity, or social biases and prejudices, or particular fashions, because their peers and the media do or their parents and society did, and so on back through the generations. Prior to the first singularity memes were selected via Darwinian processes of "natural selection"; some religions, fashions, ideologies, fads, cultures, and languages proved stronger than others and hence flourished. The rise of superbrights and hyperturings saw the domestication of the meme, and the memetic engineering replacing cheap propaganda or advertising or political or military power as the ultimate instrument of persuasion and subversion. Thus the superbrights and transapients - either on their own or working through the medium of or as an instrument for religions, noetics, polities, and megacorporations - manipulate the consciousness of sentient beings under them, and are in turn manipulated by higher transingularity AIs above them, in a noospheric ecology of great complexity.

68. Memes & Memetics Memes Creating Transmitting New Ideas Through Media and Culture. http://island.org/search/search.php/Memes-&-Memetics/

Island Web is a 501 C 3 Educational Non-Profit Organization New Sites Cool Sites Bruce Eisner's Other Works on the Web Counterculture Guide to the Web Mind Media Guide to Self Improvement Mindware Forum Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing Search Home The New Study of Mimetics The Buzz: Living Memes How we searched....: Results 1 - 4 of 4 Journal of Memetics 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. (47.00) Church of Virus A collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. Virus was originally created to compete with the traditional (irrational) religions in the human ideosphere with the idea that it would introduce and propagate memes which would ensure the survival and evolution of our species. The main advantage conferred upon adherents is Virus provides a conceptual framework for leading a truly meaningful life and attaining immortality without resorting to mystical delusions. (47.00)

69. Scribd 3, Issue 1 Database Business Source Premier A STRATEGY FOR memetics MEMES AS STRATEGIES Gatherer s (Gatherer981998) demolition tour of mental memetics and http://www.scribd.com/doc/323507/A-STRATEGY-FOR-MEMETICS-Marsden-1999?ga_related

70. The Speculist: Memetics Archives I started writing a response to the spirited debate taking place between Karl and El Jefe in the comments section of my entry earlier this week on Memetic http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/cat_memetics.html

Live to see it. FastForward Radio Join us every Sunday evening for a look at emerging technologies / possibilities. blogtalkradio.com/fastforwardradio Better All The Time Breaking news from a rapidly changing, rapidly improving world. /archives/cat_better_all_the_time/ Speculist Home More about the Speculist and the speculists who bring it to you. speculist.com Enter your search terms Web blog.speculist.com Submit search form Main February 26, 2008 More on Usefulness vs. Truthfulness Following up on Saturday's entry about the meme that united the world, I was struck by this piece (via InstaPundit ) on how science plays into the debate over female genital mutilation. The gist of the piece is that some scientists may be fudging (or possibly just misunderstanding) research results to show that female genital mutilation is more likely to be harmful to reproduction than the evidence actually indicates. This "politically correct" interpretation of the data is brought forward in the service of the movement to abolish the practice altogether. So now we have a new meme, much more serious than "Americans are stupid." We'll call this one "FGM harms reproduction." The linked piece suggests that this meme like "Americans are stupid" has proponents who are more concerned with its usefulness than its truthfulness. I certainly don't know enough about the research to venture an opinion. And while I'm pretty much in favor of

71. Journal Of Memetics: Evolutionary Models Of Information Transmission-OPEN J-Gate The Revealed Poverty of the Genememe Analogy – why memetics per Se has Failed to Produce Substantive Finding a Niche for memetics in the 21st Centuary http://www.openj-gate.org/Articlelist.asp?Source=1&Journal_ID=80246

72. Memetics And Education Since the death of Graves, Beck and Cowan have enhanced the theory by drawing from the fledging science of memetics, the study of memes. http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/caleb/memetics.html

Home Poster Store Book Store Social Justice Store ... Email Us Choose a Section: Home Teacher's Corner EdChange Research Room FREE Handouts Awareness Quizzes Curriculum Reform Social Justice News Teacher Action Research Awareness Activities Voices! Poetry E-Journal Multicultural Song Index Quips and Quotations Other Sites Join the Listserv Film Reviews Social Justice Store Poster Store SoJust.net Search: Drawing Outside the Lines: Value Systems, Memetics, and Education in the Third Millennium By Caleb Rosado* As schools in America move into the Third Millennium, they will face challenges far greater then their current operational models are prepared to handle. Demographic shifts in the nation, the increasing gap of quality education between schools, differing views on what constitutes a "quality" education, what values and norms are non-negotiable, what should be and not be included in the curriculum, the challenge of multiculturalism. racial diversity, and sensitivity to sexual orientation, these and many other issues will challenge the very foundations of education in the next millennium. This article seeks to provide a scaffolding for aligning educational systems along an evolving spiral of human development that pulls from an interdisciplinary approach to learning, a bio-psycho-social framework. Spiral Dynamics, the practical theoretical framework presented here, is a broad synthesis as opposed to simply being another theory, package, or set of solutions. It explains why what is next is next, and how to get there.

73. 2003 NBIC Report: William Sims Bainbridge On “Memetics” // Skillumin However, deep scientific understanding of the memetic processes that generate radical opposition movements may help government policymakers combat them http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/2003_nbic_report_william_sims_bainbri

Skilluminati Research Home About Resource Archive Posted Jul 06, 2007 In the �information society" of the 21st century, the most valuable resource will not be iron or oil but culture. However, the sciences of human culture have lacked a formal paradigm and a rigorous methodology. A fresh approach to culture, based on biological metaphors and information science methodologies, could vastly enhance the human and economic value of our cultural heritage and provide cognitive science with a host of new research tools. The fundamental concept is the meme, analogous to the gene in biological genetics, an element of culture that can be the basis of cultural variation, selection, and evolution. �World-views" may be self-regulating, in this respect, each dominant ideology naturally stimulating the evolution of counter-ideologies. Just when Western Civilization rejoiced that it had vanquished Nazism and Marxism, and the �end of history" was at hand, radical Islam emerged to challenge its fundamental values (El-Affendi 1999). Quite apart from the issue of terrorist attacks from radical fringes of Islam, the entire Muslim religious tradition may have an evolutionary advantage over western secularism, because it encourages a higher birth rate (Keyfitz 1986). An inescapable natural law may be at work here, comparable to that which regulates the constantly evolving relations between predators and prey in the biological realm, ensuring that there is always a rival culture, and complete victory is impossible (Maynard Smith 1982).

74. Jargon, Node: Memetics memetics /memet iks/ /n./ from meme The study of memes. As of early 1996, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/m/memetics.html

memetics memetics /me-met'iks/ /n./ [from meme ] The study of memes. As of early 1996, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate. Return to Cool Jargon of the Day

75. Memetics memetics is a scientific effort to apply evolutionary models to the development and transfer of ideas within a culture. The term meme is popularly http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Memetics

ISCID Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy BETA Make Entry Become an Editor Most Popular: ( Help Memetics Memetics is a scientific effort to apply evolution ary models to the development and transfer of ideas within a culture. The term 'meme' is popularly attributed to Richard Dawkins , who proposed the idea in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. Web Resources On Memetics Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource Memetics from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Book Resources On Memetics The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins The Mneme (1924) by Richard Semon Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie Editor(s): Joseph C. Campana Related Topics Richard Dawkins Gene Transfer Evolution Cite Entry ... Cluster Site Maps: Most Recent Clusters Browse New: Graduate Student Job Opportunity All content Link to ISCID

76. Introducing Memetics It is a nice irony that the term meme itself provides an excellent example of memetic propagation. Since 1976 the meme meme has spread far and wide to http://www.memento.org/docs/memetics.php

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WITH MEMES Introducing Memetics Jaron Collis Introduction The nature of memes Meme caveats Memes and Knowledge Management Differences ... Closing Thoughts Introduction The term meme was coined by Professor Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene". He was referring to the way in which Darwinian natural selection was equally capable of describing how ideas can propagate as it is for describing how genes propagate. It is a nice irony that the term 'meme' itself provides an excellent example of memetic propagation. Since 1976 the 'meme meme' has spread far and wide to the extent it is now part of the English language. It's now generally used to refer to a "a transmissable unit of cultural information". But this shorthand definition only tells half the story, memes are more subtle than that. In this document, I'll explain what a meme is, and what a meme isn't. We'll get back to basics with the Darwinian principles Dawkins had in mind when he first thought of the concept, and see how these principles might be rather useful in the context of knowledge management. Next Feedback, questions, comments?

77. Memetics Meets Granovetter. Many-to-Many: memetics meets Granovetter. Email This Entry. Posted by Seb Paquet . Listed below are links to weblogs that reference memetics meets Granovetter http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/01/08/memetics_meets_granovetter.php

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78. Memetics: Interesting Thing Of The Day The way beliefs spread from one person to another resembles, in some ways, the way a virus spreads. A modern theory of idea epidemiology casts new light on http://itotd.com/articles/400/memetics/

What is this site? Learn more about Interesting Thing of the Day. About See answers to frequently asked questions. FAQ View: Standard Show excerpts of all articles published this month, in reverse chronological order. Blog Contact us by email, snail mail, or phone. ... Write for ITotD this week Something in the Air December 16, 2004 Memetics The science of idea propagation Several years ago, a friend of mine gave me a book for my birthday called Thought Contagion . I had not heard of the book or its subject matter, the science of memetics , but I was fascinated by what I read. Author Aaron Lynch explained, concisely and convincingly, how some of the most significant beliefs in society came to be as popular as they are. By the end of the book I felt I understood, for the first time, a great many things that should have been obvious all along. I was even more surprised to discover that the things Lynch was saying were considered novel, and even somewhat controversial. What he described, simply and elegantly, is a compelling theory about the way beliefs spread. What Memes May Come The fundamental term in memetics is meme , which means a self-propagating idea. The term was borrowed from sociobiologist Richard Dawkins, who coined it in his 1976 book

79. On Modelling In Memetics (ResearchIndex) The field of memetics is characterised and two types of memetic model analysed the a priori model and the black box model. These are used to motivate a http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/532562.html

80. Memetics » Why Dont You Blog? memetics. article written by Heather. We’ve been tagged by the excellent no . memetics is the name of the article and is the first time I have had even http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/09/29/memetics/

Why Dont You Blog? Challenging the Zeitgeist Home Blogroll Links Subscribe to BlogByEmail ... Memetics article written by Heather no more hornets blog with another meme. This time it is the Evolution . I am tempted to say that whydontyou blog actually disproves Intelligent Design by its very nature, as it definitely seems to be the product of chance events. The very first post here basically said Welcome . The next post was a recommendation for a book on philiosophy. I see a bit of a theme starting there: Throughout the book Jamie Whyte uses logic to expose the common fallacies that surround us day to day - ranging from the false authority given to victims of tragedies through to sheer evasive lies from the rich and powerful. We were much slacker about blogging in 2006. Whole months passed without many posts. But then nobody ever commented except on Ajax or Linux posts and we had no idea if anyone else ever read the blog. Atheist belief Prove or disprove Linux partial success Happy Easter The earliest post that is still unaccountably getting hits every day is a couple of lines pointing to an online source for Viking names Other unaccountably still-hit-daily posts are the ones on food imaginary megaliths in Liverpool and our alltime favourite

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