memetics
Americannoun
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The magazine urged readers to “photocopy pages and paste them around your town” – a kind of analogue memetics.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
M.I.T. linguist Steven Pinker finds the ideas of memetics intriguing and occasionally even useful but doesn't quite believe it's a science.
From Time Magazine Archive
The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection.
From Time Magazine Archive
One advantage of memetics over tradition, Dennett points out, is that it can explain consciousness without resorting to a little man in the back of the head calling all the shots.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the new tradition of memetics, work would be described as a replicative complex unit, probably a meta-meme.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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