The meme machine

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What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, ways of plowing a field or throwing a baseball or making a sculpture. The meme is also one of the most important--and controversial--concepts to emerge since The Origin of Species appeared nearly 150 years ago.
In The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore boldly asserts: ''Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.'' Indeed, Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive--making tools, for example, or using language--survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible. These memes then passed themselves on from generation to generation by helping to ensure that the genes of those who acquired them also survived and reproduced. Applying this theory to many aspects of human life, Blackmore offers brilliant explanations for why we live in cities, why we talk so much, why we can't stop thinking, why we behave altruistically, how we choose our mates, and much more.
With controversial implications for our religious beliefs, our free will, our very sense of ''self,'' The Meme Machine offers a provocative theory everyone will soon be talking about.

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Meme Machine

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Humans have the ability to imitate and copy behaviours or memes from one another this is an investigation of whether genes and memes can lead to discoveries about the nature of the inner self and whether the inner self is only an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication humans a Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, vrijdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Het Mysterie Van Het Bewustzijn

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Unieke combinatie van wetenschap en persoonlijke ervaringwie ben ik wanneer ben ik waarvan was ik me een moment geleden bewust psycholoog susan blackmore combineert de nieuwste wetenschappelijke theorie n over de werking van het bewustzijn met persoonlijk onderzoek ze maakt daarvoor gebruik van Op voorraad. Nu besteld, zaterdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Popular Science - The Meme Machine

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Humans are extraordinary creatures with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas habits skills behaviours inventions songs and stories these are all memes a term first coined by richard dawkins in 1976 in his book the selfish gene memes like genes ar Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 april 1999

Aantal pagina's: 264

Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Susan Blackmore

Tweede Auteur: Susan Blackmore

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

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Product breedte: 120 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 190 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakkingsgewicht: 610 g

EAN: 9780198503651

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