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Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,700 ratings — published 1995
The Meme Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,265 ratings — published 1999
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,523 ratings — published 1976
The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.43 — 60 ratings — published 2004
Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.16 — 138 ratings — published 1996
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,989 ratings — published 2006
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 40,257 ratings — published 2020
Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 457 ratings — published 2013
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 364 ratings — published 1994
The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.32 — 94 ratings — published 2002
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,638 ratings — published 2006
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 315 ratings — published 2004
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,774 ratings — published 2017
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 300,892 ratings — published 1992
The Art of Memetics (Pirate Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.59 — 78 ratings — published
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,925 ratings — published 1995
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,252 ratings — published 2015
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,507 ratings — published 2020
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,120 ratings — published 1995
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,085 ratings — published 2011
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 912 ratings — published 1978
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,847 ratings — published 1999
Collaborative Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.50 — 60 ratings — published 2020
Darwinizing Culture: the Status of Memetics as a Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.28 — 46 ratings — published 2001
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 114 ratings — published 2011
Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,252 ratings — published 2012
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,511 ratings — published 2015
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,674 ratings — published 2011
Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,965 ratings — published 2000
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,156 ratings — published
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,676 ratings — published 2017
Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,051 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,349 ratings — published 2011
Void Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,559 ratings — published 2017
Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.60 — 440 ratings — published
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.59 — 20,333 ratings — published 2019
The Candy House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.64 — 69,083 ratings — published 2022
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 49,777 ratings — published 2024
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,531 ratings — published 1991
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,512 ratings — published 1940
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,833 ratings — published 1963
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,961 ratings — published 2022
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,577 ratings — published 2005
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.71 — 185 ratings — published
The Phenomenon of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,737 ratings — published 1955
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,249 ratings — published 1996
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,829 ratings — published
Lady of Mazes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 982 ratings — published 2005
Lexicon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 41,023 ratings — published 2013
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,673 ratings — published 2021
“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 designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection . . . has no purpose in mind'.
I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight.”
― The Meme Machine
I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight.”
― The Meme Machine
“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 played a major role in determining who or what we are. The "independent" mind struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous memes is a myth. There is a persisting tension between the biological imperative of our genes on the one hand and the cultural imperatives of our memes on the other, but we would be foolish to "side with" our genes; that would be to commit the most egregious error of pop sociobiology. Besides, as we have already noted, what makes us special is that we, alone among species, can rise above the imperatives of our genes— thanks to the lifting cranes of our memes.”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
