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
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
The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 formalism of memetics reminds many of us of formal languages, as well as of the shorthand used in genetics.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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