Memes are the DNA of human society, influencing every aspect of mind, behavior, and culture. Do you know your own memes Richard Brodie, creator of Microsoft Word and author of the bestselling book Virus of the Mind, gives you the latest information on memes, memetics, and mind viruses. Subscribe to his free newsletter!

Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission ...

Virus! FAQ alt.memetics last updated: May 5, 1997 Memetics is the theory of cultural replicators, based on Daniel Dennett's philosophy-of-mind and the sociobiology of Richard Dawkins. Memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution, a process which is treated as technically equivalent to biological (genetic) evolution. This concept is discussed in the alt.

Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes ...

Social Evolution We have loosely used the informal concept of the organism as a distinct kind of living entity. We must recognize that this distinction is largely arbitrary, and only useful in limited domains. A number of examples, such as viruses, beehives, slime molds, and other symbiotic and parasitic relationships threaten to blur the distinction between the living organism and the community ...

Memes: Introduction by Glenn Grant, Memeticist An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you. --Morris Berman What if ideas were viruses Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot replicate itself; it reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing its host to make millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can parasitically infect your mind and alter ...

Christianity is a 'meme', a mind virus that infects people and manipulates their behavior.

Memetic Lexicon Author: Glenn Grant Date: 1990 HTMLized by Anders Sandberg 1994 The original ASCII version is stored here. There is also an updated version with additions by David McFadzean AUTO-TOXIC: Dangerous to itself. Highly auto-toxic memes are usually self-limiting because they promote the destruction of their hosts (such as the Jim Jones meme; any military indoctrination meme-complex; ...