The Resource The meme machine, Susan Blackmore
The meme machine, Susan Blackmore
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The item The meme machine, Susan Blackmore represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 264 pages
- Contents
-
- Strange creatures
- Universal Darwinism
- The evolution of culture
- Taking the meme's eye view
- Three problems with memes
- The big brain
- The origins of language
- Meme-gene coevolution
- The limits of sociobiology
- 'An orgasm saved my life'
- Sex in the modern world
- A memetic theory of altruism
- The altruism trick
- Memes of the New Age
- Religions as memeplexes
- Into the Internet
- The ultimate memeplex
- Out of the meme race
- Isbn
- 9780198503651
- Label
- The meme machine
- Title
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Blackmore, Susan J.
- Dewey number
- 304.5
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HM291
- LC item number
- .B535 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Memetics
- Imitation
- Behavior evolution
- Sociobiology
- Social psychology
- Imitation
- Évolution du comportement
- Sociobiologie
- Psychologie sociale
- Behavior evolution
- Imitation
- Memetics
- Social psychology
- Sociobiology
- Imitatie
- Gedrag
- Evolutie
- Psychologische aspecten
- Culturele aspecten
- Biologische aspecten
- Memen
- Psicologia social
- Adaptacao (psicologia)
- Évolution du comportement
- Imitation
- Psychologie sociale
- Wissenssoziologie
- Kognitionswissenschaft
- Memetics
- Imitation
- Sociobiology
- Social psychology
- Behavior evolution
- Behavior
- Wissenssoziologie
- Kognitionswissenschaft
- Label
- The meme machine, Susan Blackmore
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Strange creatures -- Universal Darwinism -- The evolution of culture -- Taking the meme's eye view -- Three problems with memes -- The big brain -- The origins of language -- Meme-gene coevolution -- The limits of sociobiology -- 'An orgasm saved my life' -- Sex in the modern world -- A memetic theory of altruism -- The altruism trick -- Memes of the New Age -- Religions as memeplexes -- Into the Internet -- The ultimate memeplex -- Out of the meme race
- Control code
- ocm40354641
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xx, 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198503651
- Lccn
- 98049180
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o40354641
- (OCoLC)40354641
- Label
- The meme machine, Susan Blackmore
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Strange creatures -- Universal Darwinism -- The evolution of culture -- Taking the meme's eye view -- Three problems with memes -- The big brain -- The origins of language -- Meme-gene coevolution -- The limits of sociobiology -- 'An orgasm saved my life' -- Sex in the modern world -- A memetic theory of altruism -- The altruism trick -- Memes of the New Age -- Religions as memeplexes -- Into the Internet -- The ultimate memeplex -- Out of the meme race
- Control code
- ocm40354641
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xx, 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198503651
- Lccn
- 98049180
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o40354641
- (OCoLC)40354641
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
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