Memetics Books

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Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme 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
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The Meme Machine The Meme Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,265 ratings — published 1999
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The Selfish Gene The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,523 ratings — published 1976
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The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.43 — 60 ratings — published 2004
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Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.16 — 138 ratings — published 1996
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,989 ratings — published 2006
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There Is No Antimemetics Division There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 40,257 ratings — published 2020
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Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 457 ratings — published 2013
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Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 364 ratings — published 1994
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The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think 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
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 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
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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 315 ratings — published 2004
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds 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
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Snow Crash Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 300,892 ratings — published 1992
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The Art of Memetics (Pirate Edition) The Art of Memetics (Pirate Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.59 — 78 ratings — published
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History 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
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life 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
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World 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
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 912 ratings — published 1978
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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,847 ratings — published 1999
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Collaborative Society Collaborative Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.50 — 60 ratings — published 2020
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Darwinizing Culture: the Status of Memetics as a Science Darwinizing Culture: the Status of Memetics as a Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.28 — 46 ratings — published 2001
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Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences 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
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Existence Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,252 ratings — published 2012
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,511 ratings — published 2015
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The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,156 ratings — published
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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 2,676 ratings — published 2017
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Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,051 ratings — published 2018
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,349 ratings — published 2011
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Void Star Void Star (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 2,559 ratings — published 2017
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Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think 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
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.59 — 20,333 ratings — published 2019
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The Candy House The Candy House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.64 — 69,083 ratings — published 2022
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Playground Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 49,777 ratings — published 2024
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Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2) Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,531 ratings — published 1991
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,512 ratings — published 1940
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics) 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
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The Mountain in the Sea The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,961 ratings — published 2022
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Accelerando Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,577 ratings — published 2005
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Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.71 — 185 ratings — published
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The Phenomenon of Man The Phenomenon of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,737 ratings — published 1955
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order 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
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,829 ratings — published
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Lady of Mazes Lady of Mazes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 982 ratings — published 2005
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Lexicon Lexicon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 41,023 ratings — published 2013
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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,673 ratings — published 2021
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Susan Blackmore
“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.”
Susan J. Blackmore, The Meme Machine

Daniel C. Dennett
“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.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

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