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    "The term "meme" (IPA: /mim/, to rhyme with "theme", not /mm/ or /mimi/), coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes,... more

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  • Rated by Very-Cherry on Oct 15 2008, 4:57pm

    You can't spit on the internet at the moment without hitting a 'meme'. Its the currently 'fashionable' word. Use it and be one of the cool kids on SU. Ignore it and you'll be like .. so last week ! The story I heard was that Richard Dawkins had a pair of 'selfish jeans' (I'm guessing the faded denim, boot-cut style ) and he found the word 'meme' in one of the back pockets. What ? Would I lie to you, baby ? If you don't believe me click the link and read all about it ..:))

  • Rated by Ratbags on Oct 13 2008, 4:47am

    Meme - another new name for an old thing. There are a shitload of twenty dollar words in the article, which is usually a dead giveaway that the authors are intellectual wankers. People continually re-invent existing concepts. This article is merely obfuscation at great length.

  • Rated by SpiderMurphy on Apr 23 2008, 6:40pm

    All ur Meme's are belong to me!!!!!!!

  • Rated by tenthdimension on Jul 10 2007, 5:21pm

    Quantum mechanics tells us there is no difference between information and reality. Memes show us how ideas and a preference for one idea over another, of one outcome over another could translate into that picture. Memes (rhymes with "teams") are a very important part of the Imagining the Tenth Dimension concept. This wikipedia article does a great job of introducing us to Richard Dawkins's powerful idea. Rob Bryanton

  • Rated by runtime on Feb 16 2007, 4:47am

    "The term "meme" (IPA: /mim/, to rhyme with "theme", not /mm/ or /mimi/), coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion -- analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes. Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection -- in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution -- on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate -- for better or for worse -- through modification. After humans become infected with the memeplex for language -- generally during babyhood -- they get infected with a series of higher-abstraction memes, and especially values memes. Depending on the education received by the person, the lessons drawm from experience, and the surrounding cultural materials (tales, songs, books, etc), a certain ecology and history of meme infection and interaction builds up within that person's mind. Memes generate behaviors in their host -- either spoken or acted behaviors. Because each person has an individual memetic infection and interaction history, there emerge singular behavior patterns. We conventionally refer to these meme-generated patterns of behavior as a person's personality.

  • Rated by saltwatermatt on Jan 06 2007, 2:27am

    Definition of meme.

  • Rated by spectrekitty on Aug 08 2006, 3:05am

    The Education of Kitty From the page: Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Other examples include deities, concepts, ideas, theories, opinions, beliefs, practices, habits, dances and moods which propagate within a culture. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution analogous in many ways to the gene (the unit of genetic information).

  • Rated by eat on Jun 29 2006, 2:52pm

    The sheer douchiness of memetics, not to mention its conspicuous lack of materialistic foundation, makes me dislike it. If anything, its popularity among arm-chair intelligentsia makes me cringe at its mention all that much more. I guess that's just "memetic resistance." And screw Richard Dawkins for needing a meaningless buzzword to popularize his heavy-handed atheism.