If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as wit...
But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already p...
As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evo...
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I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.
I truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely.
Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he design...
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as ...
Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that ima...
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the dangers of doing various forbidden things. Why? Because memes involving danger are the ones we pay attention to! As oral traditio...
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
I recommend you don't attend the wheat and chaff bonfire.
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.
