Ideas can be replicators, just as genes are in biology, memes are - TopicsExpress



          

Ideas can be replicators, just as genes are in biology, memes are in psychology. A good joke is a meme. When lodged in a persons mind, it has a tendency to cause that person to tell it to other people, thus copying it into their minds. In 1976 evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme for ideas that are replicators. Most ideas are not replicators, as they do not cause us to convey them to other people. Nearly all long lasting ideas, however, such as languages, scientific theories and religious beliefs, as well as the ineffable states of mind that constitute cultures such as being British are memes or collections of interacting memes known as memeplexes edited from the book The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:21:22 +0000

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