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	Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memetic inertia increases when the meme transfers along with mnemonic devices, such as a rhyme, to preserve the memory of the meme prior to its transmission.
		Memetics thus remains a science in its infancy, a protoscience (although critics sometimes label it a pseudoscience).
		Memetics though excels in explaining the spread of certain value judgements ("chastity is important"), preferences ("pork is repulsive"), superstitions ("fl cats bring bad luck") and other scientifically unverifiable beliefs ("'X' is the one true God"), since one cannot easily account for any of these phenomena in terms of their truth-value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meme (7944 words)

	Memetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memetics is an approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme.
		The main rationale for externalism was that internal brain entities are not observable, and memetics cannot advance as a science, especially a quantitative science, unless it moves its emphasis onto the directly quantifiable aspects of culture.
		In the method of memetics as the way to see culture as a complex adaptive system, he describes a way to see memetics as an alternative methodology of cultural evolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memetics (1755 words)

	an objection to the memetic approach to culture
		Memetics is one possible evolutionary approach to the study of culture.
		From a memetic point of view, it is enough that A and B should share the properties the recurrence of which one is trying to explain.
		For memetics to be a reasonable research program, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture.
	www.dan.sperber.com /meme.htm (3970 words)

	Memetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Memetics is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as "living" organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an "Ideosphere" (similar to the Biosphere) consisting of the collective of human minds.
		Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution by Hans-Cees Speel.
		Memetic Science: I - General introduction by Elan Moritz.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Cultural/Memetics (499 words)

	MEMETICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Memetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme.
		In the method of memetics as the way to see culture as complex adaptive system, it is clear how we can see memetics incorporating as an alternative methodology of cultural evolution.
		However, enthusiasms on memetics as described in the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission reflects this area as important and promising for the analysis of culture in the terminologies of evolution.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/me/Memetics.htm (571 words)

	Memetics - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Memetics is a field of biology, psychology, and sociology which deals with the replication, spread and evolution of memes.
		Stephen Jay Gould held the opinion that memetics is misleading, and not useful.
		The term meme is a shortening of the word mimeme, which comes from the Greek mimma and means, roughly, "something that is imitated." Dawkins chose this shortened form for its resemblance to the word gene to emphasize the parallel nature of the two concepts.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Memetics (367 words)

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		MEMETICS by Jack Hardy (c) Copyright 1985 Jack Hardy A meme is basically an idea with cultural baggage onboard.
		The astounding thing about memetics, is that some skills and beliefs don't have to be learned, but can be achieved simply by the existence of other or prior examples.
		Memetics itself, is the subject of a self-reflexive paradox, in that it's own existence as an intellectual theory, will not be accepted, and then almost overnight everyone will understand it.
	soli.com /jhardy/memetics.txt (2440 words)

	Journal of Memetics - Aims and Scope
		Memetics is the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes.
		The memetic perspective is complementary to the traditional social science perspective, which focuses on the characteristics of the individuals and groups communicating rather than on the characteristics of the information being communicated.
		We therefore particularly welcome approaches that integrate memetic ideas with observations, concepts and methods from the social sciences and humanities, rather than being restricted to formal models that have little connection with the behavior of real individuals, groups or cultures.
	www.jom-emit.org (671 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Meme
		As is the case with genes, it is not necessary to know the exact coding or even the exact size or boundaries of a meme in order to discuss its fitness, and thus to make predictions about its further spreading, survival or extinction within the population of competing memes.
		Memetics is vital to the understanding of cults, ideologies, and marketing campaigns of all kinds, and it can help to provide immunity from dangerous information-contagions.
		Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
	fusionanomaly.net /meme.html (2492 words)

	Memetics
		The specific topic of this research was to help the science of memetics move from a purely theoretical basis to a science with practical implications.
		For this purpose a survey was used which questioned the survey-takers about certain memetic selection criteria as defined in the works of Heylighen.
		By comparing the results of the expert to the results of the public survey, it was possible to verify whether or not the survey-takers had interpreted the different criteria as they were supposed to.
	memetics.chielens.net /master.html (157 words)

	Memetic Algorithms' Home Page
		Memetic Algorithms for molecular conformation and other optimization problems, by P. Moscato, appeared in the Newsletter No. 20, May-August, 1998, of the International Union of Crystallography, Newsletter of the Comission for Powder Diffraction.
		Memetic Algorithms and the Fitness Landscape of the Graph Bi-Partitioning Problem, by P. Merz and B. Freisleben, accepted at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature V, PPSN '98.
		Memetics, by F. Heylighen, editor of the world-wide Principia Cybernetica Project for the collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy.
	www.ing.unlp.edu.ar /cetad/mos/memetic_home.html (5448 words)

	Reinterpreting Memetics in a Multi-Level View ... Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Despite the variations of the definition of memetics in the literature, the original definition is sufficient for the purposes of this paper.
		In terms of the proposed methodology, the aim is (a) to treat memetics as a single level in a hypothet ical hierarchy of levels, and (b) to reinterpret its basic assumptions in the context of its neighbouring levels.
		The emphasis in the present reinterpretation of memetics is at the level of cognitive and affective schemas, and environmental contexts.
	www.cam.cornell.edu /~rclewley/meme2.html (3789 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Biology: Sociobiology: Memetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Memetics - A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one.
		Memetics and Synthetic Intelligence Discussion Corner - Discussions of the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer, with focus on creativity, memes, replicators, language, ideas, evolution, computers, viruses, knowledge, artificial intelligence, brain and the mind.
		Neobiology and Ethetics - The neobiological model iindicates that all living systems, genetic and memetic belong to the realm of biology, ethetics is the field which encompasses all self-perpetuating algorithmic structures, including genetics and memetics.
	dmoz.org /Science/Biology/Sociobiology/Memetics (557 words)

	Memetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Like acting or any trade, this memetic devolvement is best felt to be working when the subject is relaxed and has ‘let themselves go’.
		The memetic ripples that percolate through our universe are readable to the adept.
		Their bold plan was correspondingly enabled by memetic forces, which they weren’t conscious of.
	www.newdawnmagazine.com /articles/Memetics.html (4708 words)

	Memetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Memetics was invented by Richard Dawkins, and is a theory for understanding the spreading of useful information patterns (ideas).
		A shorter introduction is given by the Jargon File 3.0.0's entries on meme and memetics (beware: by accessing this link you risk exposure to a vast meme complex native to hacker culture...)
		.rez has written a paper on what he calls the autologue, which is a study of how discourse on the net revolves around a memetic attractor, iterated and reiterated by the participants.
	www.evolutionzone.com /kulturezone/memetics/index_body.html (310 words)

	Memetics
		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.
		This process of self-reproduction (the memetic life-cycle), leading to spreading over a growing group of individuals, defines the meme as a replicator, similar in that respect to the gene (Dawkins, 1976; Moritz, 1991).
		Examples of memes in the animal world are most bird songs, and certain techniques for hunting or using tools that are passed from parents or the social group to the youngsters (Bonner, 1980).
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /memes.html (1118 words)

	The Selfish Text: The Bible and Memetics
		Dawkins and other writers on memetics frequently cite the example of the 'God-meme' as a meme which has a powerful record of propagation across time and space.
		Both genetically and memetically, the afterlife of the believer is strictly irrelevant except in so far as belief in personal immortality act to sustain the continuity of the meme pool.
		More than that, I see it in Plotkin's terms as an indispensable source of what might be called 'memetic diversity.' In agricultural genetics, one of the most worrying trends has been the loss of diversity from the appellations of food plants and animals.
	users.lycaeum.org /~sputnik/Memetics/bible.html (7971 words)

	Memetics and Memetic Algorithms
		Memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution, a process which is treated as technically equivalent to biological (genetic) evolution.
		Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution A paper on memetic evolution loosely connected to the presentation 'Memetics, a conceptual framework for cultural evolution' at the satilite symposium The Evolution of Complexity -, of EINSTEIN meets MAGRITTE in Brussels at the Free University on June 2 1995.
		Memetics Memetics is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as "living" organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an "Ideosphere" (similar to the Biosphere) consisting of the collective of human minds.
	www.aridolan.com /ofiles/ad/adb/MM.aspx (10391 words)

	HansCees.com
		He was the guy that Douglas Hofstadter in 'Metamagical themes' referred to, and the thinker that might have the longest history in thinking in memetic thought.
		The journal of memetics (since 15 may 1997) has a HUGE LIST of memetic references, a mailing list and archive and so on.
		the work of William Calvin on evolution in the brain with some sharp insights that have relevance to memetics, in the sense that most memes are 'coded' in the brain to use Calvin's words.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/hanscees/mem.htm (2129 words)

	The Amazon.com Memetics Bookstore - books on memes, mind viruses, consciousness, and evolution
		Although Key doesn't use the word "meme," he is thinking along the memetic paradigm as he uses Madison Avenue's sneaky tactics to enlighten readers about the vulnerable nature of their minds.
		The world of The Diamond Age is one in which deliberate memetic engineering has given birth to designed cultures, most noteworthy the neo-Victorians, in which philosopher-kings worthy of Plato decide not what values are True, or God-Given, but what values make up a workable society.
		This is a book the memetic engineers of the next millennium will all have on their shelves.
	www.memecentral.com /books.htm (3555 words)

	Memetic Lexicon
		The realm of memetic evolution, as the biosphere is the realm of biological evolution.
		Any memetic strategy used by a meme to encourage its host to repeat the meme to other people.
		An infection strategy common to many meme-complexes, placing the potential host in the role of Victim and playing on their insecurity, as in: "the bourgeoisie is oppressing the proletariat" (Hofstadter).
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /MEMLEX.html (1675 words)

	Memetics papers on the web
		Emergence without magic: the role of memetics in multi-scale models of evolution and behavior" (1998): "It is suggested that memetics should be unified with less abstract theories of culture and individual psychology, under a methodologically reductionist view of science.
		Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution" Evolution of Complexity Symposium (1995): "The aim of this paper is to present a conceptual framework for the selective memetic evolution of strategies belonging to large organizations."
		Memetics discussion (email) list archive - browse through the records of an ongoing discussion featuring many of the stars of memetic theorizing and research.
	www.lycaeum.org /~sputnik/Memetics/index.html (6434 words)

	Organisational Memetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Unlike their biological counterparts they can exert conscious choice and puncture the memetic codes that seek to keep them stable; the mental models of individuals, and the strategies, paradigms and unwritten rules at the company level.
		The ability to re-arrange mental models and to reshape unwritten rules is the equivalent in the memetic world of the work of the facilitative gene.
		Without the ability to facilitate a change to the appropriate replicator, genetic or memetic, the odds are stacked against adaptation and learning.
	members.aol.com /ifprice/orgmem.html (7458 words)

	memepool.com: Memetics archive
		But plagued as we may be with the idiosyncratic problems associated with hosting a population of horomone-crazed jobless youths untethered by the civilizing institution of marriage, I remain skeptical of the campaign (driven, no doubt, by the powerful meme-machine of Judeo-Christian sexual repression) to dissuade young people from doing the obvious.
		Sadly, most deliberate acts of memetic engineering spawn destructive ideas motivated by greed, hatred or fanaticism.
		That may be why it's such a delight to discover the benevolent infovirus from the host of generosity.org.
	www.memepool.com /Subject/Memetics (1250 words)

	Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource
		The breakthrough in memetics is in extending Darwinian evolution to culture.
		There are several exciting conclusions from doing that, one of which is the ability to predict that ideas will spread not because they are "good ideas", but because they contain "good memes" such as danger, food and sex that push our evolutionary buttons and force us to pay attention to them.
		Speel is one of the first academic researchers to devote his work to memetics.
	www.memecentral.com (785 words)

	Memes: Introduction
		The name of the person who first coined and defined each word appears in parentheses, although some definitions have been paraphrased and altered.
		Keith Henson, "Memetics", Whole Earth Review #57: 50-55.
		For a fictional treatment of these ideas, see my short story, "Memetic Drift," in Interzone #34 (March/April 1990).
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /MEMIN.HTML (679 words)

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