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Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,686 ratings — published 1995
The Meme Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,246 ratings — published 1999
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,655 ratings — published 1976
The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.43 — 60 ratings — published 2004
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,940 ratings — published 2006
Thought Contagion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.17 — 139 ratings — published 1996
Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.67 — 446 ratings — published 2013
The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.33 — 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 — 99,369 ratings — published 2006
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,954 ratings — published 2020
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,717 ratings — published 2017
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 364 ratings — published 1994
The Art of Memetics (Pirate Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.59 — 78 ratings — published
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 316 ratings — published 2004
Collaborative Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.52 — 58 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
Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,151 ratings — published 2012
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 297,729 ratings — published 1992
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 — 5,960 ratings — published 2000
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,910 ratings — published 1995
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,913 ratings — published 1998
Adventures of Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 275 ratings — published 1933
Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
SUMMARY: Not Born Yesterday (UNOFFICIAL SUMMARY: Lesson from Hugo Mercier)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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Virus of the Mind (09) by Brodie, Richard [Hardcover (2009)]
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Politics and Morality of Deviance: Moral Panics, Drug Abuse, Deviant Science, and Reversed Stigmatization (Deviance Social Control)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1990
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,889 ratings — published 2021
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.43 — 614 ratings — published 2016
Where Are We Heading? Lib/E: The Evolution of Humans and Things (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.59 — 194 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,855,996 ratings — published 2018
How Ideas Spread (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.70 — 376 ratings — published 2014
The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.49 — 395 ratings — published
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,996 ratings — published 1995
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,678 ratings — published 1991
Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 154 ratings — published 2012
René Girard's Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 165 ratings — published 2008
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,351 ratings — published 2015
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,737 ratings — published 2011
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 658 ratings — published 2018
Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,132 ratings — published 2013
Nowy Ateizm. Analiza krytyczna (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2015
Culture and the Evolutionary Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 36 ratings — published 1985
Understanding Memes and Internet Satire (Critical Thinking about Digital Media)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2018
Critical Meme Reader II: Memetic Tacticality (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published
Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.32 — 224 ratings — published
Programming the Human Biocomputer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 134 ratings — published 1973
The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 939 ratings — published
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,890 ratings — published 1970
Genes, Memes, and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as memetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 24 ratings — published 2003
“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.”
― The Meme Machine
― The Meme Machine
“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
