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	Meme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Memes can represent parts of ideas, languages, tunes, designs, skills, moral and esthetic values and anything else that is commonly learned and passed on to others as a unit.
		Memes (or behaviors acquired and propagated by imitation) have been observed in just a few species on Earth, including humans, dolphins and a bird that learns how to sing by imitating its parents.
		A controversial application of this "selfish meme" parallel is the idea that certain collections of memes can act as "memetic viruses": collections of ideas that behave like independent life forms, and continue to get passed on even at the expense of their hosts simply because they are good at getting passed on.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/m/me/meme.html (1786 words)

	Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memes supposedly have, as their fundamental property, evolution via natural selection in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution, on the premise that replication, mutation, survival and competition influence them.
		Normally, the population of individuals having a meme in their consciousness is heterogeneous and mixes enough to keep the meme intact although it covers a wide range of variations.
		The original meme of Kellermann and his work on gun-related violent injury has generated a new meme, "Dr. Kellerman is a evil lying gun-grabbing enemy of freedom," by the classic genetic phenomenon of a deletion mutation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meme (7245 words)

	``Memes, The New Replicators''
		Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
		memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically.(3) When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
		The meme of Darwin's theory is therefore that essential basis of the idea which is held in common by all brains that understand the theory.
	www.rubinghscience.org /memetics/dawkinsmemes.html (8617 words)

	The Application Of Technology In The Transition From Training To Performance Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Memes can be said to replicate as a new copy of the meme or idea is created in the mind of the receiver without affecting the original meme.
		The paper may be presented at a conference (the meme now spreads to a wider population) and if any of the other delegates think his theory is of value they may take it back to their own organisations and pass it on to their colleagues.
		Memes can be said to mutate, as any given meme is open to interpretation (or to being misunderstood) by the receiver and indeed may be synthesised with other memes already held in the mind of the receiver.
	www.geocities.com /adamopolis (4278 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leading from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
		The meme for vanishing point perspective in two-dimensional art, for example, which first appeared in the sixteenth century, can be encoded and transmitted in German, English or Chinese; it can be described in words, or in algebraic equations, or in line drawings.
		Herein the meme is a social process (sociotype) by which a brain is influenced, resulting in a 'mental ontogeny' of the meme's phenotype inside the brain.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Cultural/Memetics/alt.memetics.faq.txt (1400 words)

	Imitation and the definition of a meme
		They take away the idea of the meme as a replicator (which was the original reason for its invention, and provides its context within evolutionary theory), ignore the idea that memes must be passed on by some kind of copying, and merely add confusion to the already difficult problem of understanding consciousness.
		If memes depend on imitation for their transmission then we need to be clear about how to distinguish true imitation, which involves learning by copying a new form of behaviour, from other kinds of social learning which do not.
		Memes fulfil the role of replicator because they exhibit all three of the necessary conditions; that is, heredity (the form and details of the behaviour are copied), variation (they are copied with errors, embellishments or other variations), and selection (only some behaviours are successfully copied).
	jom-emit.cfpm.org /1998/vol2/blackmore_s.html (5101 words)

	Memetic Lexicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Memes evolve in competition for niches in the belief-space of individuals and societies.
		MEME POOL: The full diversity of memes accessible to a culture or individual.
		MILLENNIAL MEME, the: Any of several currently-epidemic memes which predict catastrophic events for the year 2000, including the battle of Armageddon, the Rapture, the thousand-year reign of Jesus, etc. The "Imminent New Age" meme is simply a pan-denominational version of this.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Cultural/Memetics/meme_lex.html (1644 words)

	The Straight Dope: What is a meme? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One defining characteristic of a meme is that it reproduces itself with a fair degree of fidelity.
		Meme theory proponents argue that, just as we're the pawns by which our genes compete for dominance, so are we the creatures of our memes.
		Memes are much the same, and their substrates can be as varied as a book or someone's memory.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/040213.html (801 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Meme
		Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication: a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme.
		A meme is a (cognitive) information-structure able to replicate using human hosts and to influence their behavior to promote replication.
		If a host is infected and later forgets the meme and/or stops acting out the new behavior before the host has spread the meme on, the host has not done the meme any more good than if the host had not been infected in the first place.
	fusionanomaly.net /meme.html (2492 words)

	meme - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A meme is an idea that is passed on from one human generation to another.
		Examples of memes might include the idea of God; the importance of the individual as opposed to group importance; the belief that the environment can to some extent be controlled; or that technologies can create an electronically interconnected world community.
		Dawkins himself described such short-lived ideas as memes that would have a short life in the meme pool.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci212545,00.html (241 words)

	Frequently asked question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When you plant a fertile meme in my mind, you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
		Heith Michael Rezabek: My favorite example of a crucial meme would be "fire" or more importantly, "how to make a fire." This is a behavioral meme, mind you, one which didn't necessarily need a word attached to it to spring up and spread, merely a demonstration for another to follow.
		Lee Borkman: Memes, like genes, vary in their fitness to survive in the environment of human intellect.
	maxwell.lucifer.com /virus/alt.memetics/what.is.html (717 words)

	Strolling Through the Memetic Mine Field
		The memes associated with morals are often referred to by the term "mores" which my dictionary defines as, "folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group".
		Memes correspond to the programs that run on the computers, along with the associated data, and are loaded subsequent to the initial boot.
		In the 60's, the meme got established, with some justification, I suppose, that parents could not be trusted and were generally out of touch with the activities and interests of the current society.
	www.spectacle.org /1095/meme.html (4946 words)

	Cultural transmission is analogous to genetic transmission in that
		A meme is a play on the word gene, because like genes memes contain self-replicating information for their own propagation.
		The study of argumentation is itself a meme, and surrounds the plausibility of argument theory and practice.
		For Brodie, memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life.
	www.uwmc.uwc.edu /communication_arts/barry/memes.htm (1335 words)

	Post Comment
		Copy the meme below into your own journal, then post a comment here linking to the post in which this meme can be found.
		Make sure the meme itself links back to this post, so that everyone who posts this meme, on my friendspage or not, can link me to their meme-post.
		The responses to The Meme Project are overwhelming and wonderful and if I could I would thank every single person who's spread the meme so far individually -- but there are so many of you, which is too damn awesome, that I'm just going to have to say it here: THANK YOU.
	www.livejournal.com /users/ladyjaida/272230.html?mode=reply (469 words)

	Memetic Lexicon
		Since a person can only be infected with and transmit a finite number of memes, there is a limit to their belief space (Henson).
		A form of intolerance; a condition which causes a person to react in an unusually extreme manner when exposed to a specific semiotic stimulus, or `meme-allergen.' Exo-toxic meme-complexes typically confer dangerous meme-allergies on their hosts.
		Any of several currently-epidemic memes which predict catastrophic events for the year 2000, including the battle of Armageddon, the Rapture, the thousand-year reign of Jesus, etc. The "Imminent New Age" meme is simply a pan-denominational version of this.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /MEMLEX.html (1675 words)

	Topical Words: Meme
		He argued that ideas are capable of being transmitted through a population, to the extent that they must be thought of as somehow independent of the human brains that host and spawn them.
		He coined the word meme for such concepts as skills, habits, stories, songs, inventions or ideas that are passed from person to person by imitation.
		And she maintains that the existence of memes means that the whole idea of free will and self in human beings is an illusion, with the brain (the “meme machine” of her title) being just a collection of memes playing out competitive exchanges that invent an illusion of a controlling intellect.
	www.worldwidewords.org /topicalwords/tw-mem1.htm (496 words)

	Urban Dictionary: meme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		- meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual
		Santa Claus is a more persistent meme than weasel frosting.
		The goal of the meme is to change the thought patterns of the populace.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=meme&r=f (497 words)

	Memetics papers on the web
		Memes: Myths, Misunderstandings and Misgivings" (1998): "[The] spectrum of possibilities, from the unwitting, unconscious hosting of culture-borne viruses (of all 'attitudes') to the foresightful design and promulgation of inventions and creations that intelligently and artfully draw upon well-understood cultural resources, must be viewable under a single, unifying perspective."
		Memes and the persistence of organizational structures" Symposium on Memetics: EMIT (1998): Uses the analogy of the cell and its genetic material to describe the organization and its parts.
		Meme X" (1996): "Memes are thought-chains that propagate and compete in the cultural environment...
	users.lycaeum.org /~sputnik/Memetics (6434 words)

	them.ws/blog :: Entry :: Feeds for Meme Pool
		them.ws/blog :: Entry :: Feeds for Meme Pool
		They are a RSS Feed for Meme Pool, another RSS Feed for Common Dreams and finally a RSS Feed for Spin Sanity.
		Once again enjoy the feeds and let me know if they are broken.
	them.ws /index.php?fid=510 (189 words)

	memepool.com: Article archive
		All this competition was supposed to help, but it looks like the only way to get DSL if you live outside a large city is for FCC Chairman Kennard to come install it.
		(I had a good deal with a local ISP where I hosted a dialup pool, but then they pulled out, leaving only a dark fiber in my house.
		Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, Wall Street Economist Ed Yardeni, and WWF Wrestler Perry Saturn all want to be film critics?
	www.memepool.com /Date/103 (1112 words)

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