What Is A Meme?

What is a Meme?

Meme An idea that, like a gene, can replicate and evolve.

Meme A unit of cultural information that represents a basic idea that can be transferred from one individual to another, and subjected to mutation, crossover and adaptation.

Meme A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); “ memes are the cultural counterpart of genes”.

Meme origins The term and concept of meme is from the 1976 book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene .

Memeticists Though Dawkins defined the meme as “a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation,” memeticists vary in their definitions of meme.

Memetics The lack of a consistent, rigorous definition of what precisely a meme is remains one of the principal criticisms leveled at memetics, the study of memes . (from the Wikipedia)

Susan Blackmore little bits of knowledge, lore, habit that seem to spread themselves using human brains as mere carriers

Replicators Earth now has three replicators: genes (the basis of life), memes (the basis of human culture) and temes (the basis of technology).

Internet Meme Refers to a catchphrase or concept that spreads rapidly from person to person via the Internet, largely through Internet-based email, blogs, forums, social networking sites and instant messaging.

Teme Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

Arteme What about artemes (artificial memes - but really they are no more artificial than we are).

Thank you to:
Susan Blackmore
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Chapters/cosmos2008.htm
The Daily Meme
http://thedailymeme.com

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What Is A Meme?

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