The meme machine

264 pages

English language

Published 2000 by Oxford University Press.

OCLC Number:
52855410

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After Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, Susan Blackmore drive us deeply into the theory of the meme, social and cultural "replicators", trying to explain the human unique ability to imitate. Altruism, ideas, human behaviours, sex, poetry, music... seems to be simply the result of such as memetic selection...

Even our inner conscious self and our sense of free will are illlusion created by the memes for the sake of their own replication.

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Subjects

  • Memetics.
  • Imitation.
  • Behavior evolution.
  • Sociobiology.
  • Social psychology.