The meme machine
Resource Information
The work The meme machine represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The Resource
The meme machine
Resource Information
The work The meme machine represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The meme machine
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Blackmore
- Subject
-
- Behavior
- Behavior evolution
- Behavior evolution
- Biologische aspecten
- Culturele aspecten
- Evolutie
- Gedrag
- Imitatie
- Imitation
- Imitation
- Imitation
- Kognitionswissenschaft
- Kognitionswissenschaft
- Memen
- Adaptacao (psicologia)
- Memetics
- Psicologia social
- Psychologie sociale
- Psychologie sociale
- Psychologische aspecten
- Social psychology
- Social psychology
- Sociobiologie
- Sociobiology
- Sociobiology
- Wissenssoziologie
- Wissenssoziologie
- Évolution du comportement
- Évolution du comportement
- Memetics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Uniquely among animals, humans are capable of imitation and so can copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviors, inventions, songs and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. According to memetic theory, memes, like genes, are replicators, competing to get into as many brains as possible, and this memetic competition has fashioned our minds and culture, just as natural selection has designed our bodies. Can the analogy between memes and genes lead us to powerful new theories that actually explain anything important? This book ends by confronting the deepest questions of all about ourselves: the nature of the inner self, the part of us that is the centre of our consciousness, that feels emotions, has memories, holds beliefs and makes decisions. Author Blackmore contends that this inner self is an illusion, a creation of the memes for the sake of their own replication.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 304.5
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HM291
- LC item number
- .B535 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
Context
Context of The meme machineWork of
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/4JZ4cva23qM/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/4JZ4cva23qM/">The meme machine</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/">Waubonsee Community College</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Work The meme machine
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/4JZ4cva23qM/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/4JZ4cva23qM/">The meme machine</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/">Waubonsee Community College</a></span></span></span></span></div>