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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.
Susan 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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In this audiobook, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes - including "Leave Britney Alone", the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's "We Are the 99 Percent". She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users.
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Great Read
- De Rodrick Howard en 07-22-24
De: Limor Shifman
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Consciousness, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Susan Blackmore
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.
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Great Book, Great Narration
- De Malcolm Broderick en 07-26-24
De: Susan Blackmore
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Flights of Fancy
- Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?
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Thank God for Richard Dawkins!
- De aaron en 12-19-21
De: Richard Dawkins
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Virus of the Mind
- The New Science of the Meme
- De: Richard Brodie
- Narrado por: Richard Brodie
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
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Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. Here, the author carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives.
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The "Memes Explain Everything" Meme.
- De Nelson Alexander en 02-20-10
De: Richard Brodie
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The Ancestor's Tale
- A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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In The Ancestor's Tale, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey, Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and riveting in its telling.
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Please do an unabridged version!
- De MovieExpertise en 09-29-16
De: Richard Dawkins
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Books Do Furnish a Life
- An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Neil deGrasse Tyson, y otros
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Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins's forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins's own remarkable canon of work.
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Loved it!
- De Rebekah en 11-03-23
De: Richard Dawkins
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Memes
- In Digital Culture
- De: Limor Shifman
- Narrado por: Karen Saltus
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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In this audiobook, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes - including "Leave Britney Alone", the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's "We Are the 99 Percent". She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users.
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Great Read
- De Rodrick Howard en 07-22-24
De: Limor Shifman
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River out of Eden
- A Darwinian View of Life
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
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How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin, and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as "[T]he sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.
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- De Jeff P en 09-19-20
De: Richard Dawkins
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Brief Candle in the Dark
- My Life in Science
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times best-selling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the 20th century - The God Delusion.
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I'm a Dawkins Groupie but...
- De Anne en 10-18-15
De: Richard Dawkins
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Exact Thinking in Demented Times
- The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
- De: Karl Sigmund
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in mathematics, science, and philosophy and to build a strong foundation for scientific investigation. Composed of such luminaries as Kurt Gödel and Rudolf Carnap, and stimulated by the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, the Vienna Circle left an indelible mark on science.
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Historical narrative, with physics and despair.
- De Philip J. Kurle en 10-08-18
De: Karl Sigmund
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Elbow Room
- The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
- De: Daniel C Dennett
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will while jettisoning the impediments". In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting - those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility - are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail.
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Good points but rambling
- De Brandon B. en 03-09-16
De: Daniel C Dennett
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Outgrowing God
- A Beginner's Guide
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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In 12 fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins explains how the natural world arose without a designer - the improbability and beauty of the "bottom-up programming" that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings - and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world’s religions: Do you believe in God? Which one? Is the Bible a "Good Book"? Is adhering to a religion necessary, or even likely, to make people good to one another? Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself.
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No new ground is covered.
- De God(less) en 11-05-19
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Meme Life
- The Social, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Memetic Communication
- De: Shane Tilton
- Narrado por: Joel Schrank
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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Memes have been part of computer-assisted communication almost since the development of the first consumer browser (the "World Wide Web") in 1990. This book seeks to explain how memes influence societies and cultures beyond the confines of social networking services. It will begin by reviewing the fundamental definitions that frame discussions about memes in popular culture and academic research. There will be a connection between theoretical concepts about memes and the memetic content itself.
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50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
- De: Guy P. Harrison
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
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Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. Or perhaps you're trying to find a nice way of dissuading someone from wasting money on a homeopathy cure. How do you find a gently persuasive way of steering people away from unfounded beliefs, bogus cures, conspiracy theories, and the like? Longtime skeptic Guy P. Harrison shows you how in this down-to-earth, entertaining exploration of commonly held extraordinary claims.
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Skepticism, so Dull & Condescending
- De Mr Conway en 03-11-13
De: Guy P. Harrison
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Philosophy of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: David Wallace
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
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Philosophy of Physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has to change in the light of what we learn from physics.
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Wittgenstein
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: Kyle Munley
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on 20th-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A. C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general listener by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.
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Great content read by a robot
- De Joseph Miller en 09-24-22
De: A. C. Grayling
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
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In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Evidence for Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
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The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument". Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics.
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Back to His Strong Suit
- De Dalton en 09-23-09
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Billion Dollar Molecule
- One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
- De: Barry Werth
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
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Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing - atom by atom - both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS.
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- De Alexa en 05-05-23
De: Barry Werth
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- J. C. Weaver
- 03-13-24
Rigorously thought out and argued
Her conclusions really seem unarguable, and the implications could not be more profound. Presented with kindness and sympathy for the resistance one might feel towards her ideas. Ends up being quite comforting really.
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Essential reading on Evolution
An essential read for anyone interested in evolution. My question to Susan would be - "Was it necessary to inject your destroy-the-self-meme meme at the end?"
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- ade adetayo
- 10-21-21
simultaneously illuminating as well as confusing
close to Richard Dawkins style of thinking and writing.
takes some of his ideas further.
loved it.
Not sure how much I agree with. But it does make I think about what really goes on inside.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-07-20
British accent of narrator may not appeal
I normally like listening to books where narrators have British accents.
This book is an exception.
It reached a point that I shuddered every time I heard the word EEEEE-volution.
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- J Garner
- 08-07-21
Deep and well argued
This is a deep and well argued conceptualization of memes. It is a great starting point for further thought.
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- Hans Thieme
- 02-14-22
memes are gut bacteria, not godlike puppet masters
there are a few things that really bug me about this book. but i suppose they are all just intellectual disagreements. we do see imitation in other animals, such as chimpanzees bashing nuts with stones. this meager start of "imitation" does not then give way to a new all powerful replicator that brings the species into dominance, it is a meme, but it is stagnant.
i suspect the root issue is that me and the author disagree about the primary selection pressures on humans. to me, memes in humans have become a dominant force because we are a very rare large eusocial species. eusociality causes communication to become much more complex and abstract. it is when memes are added to this situation, with the addition of large brain size and selection for constant "memetic warfare", that human memes evolve.
additionally, humans do have another brand of replicator, they are the bacteria in the gut. but these bacteria do not control us like a dog on a leash, the only reason they are allowed to exist is because our body has figured out how to regulate them so that on average they benefit our fitness. the exact same almost certainly takes place in our brains. we should be studying the brains immune defenses from memes, rather than a complete subservience as implied by this book.
finally for such a speculative field, i feel more attention should have been placed on real examples. the evolution of science, religions, cultures, computer science. (online dna can be translated into a virus, so you can "catch" diseases over the internet. and memes can be turned into viruses as well, showing these are one and the same).
but i suppose strong disagreement on the fundamentals is still to be expected at this point
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- Dakota limberhand
- 05-31-21
I'm a mf meme machine
I have never felt more up-to-date on meme then I am right now. praise the meme!
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- Gavin R.
- 12-25-23
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Narrator is too British and Woman. British woman. She's bri'ish innit? The british are notoriously the narration of all time.
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- João pedro
- 12-25-21
Narrator kinda killed the book
Never has this been an issue for me in any of the audiobooks i own. I always thought of it as a petty critique that many point out in otherwise great books. This one is unbearable though. Apologies to the narrator but honestly it feels Luke it's being read by a text to speech software. completely monotonical throughout the entire listen. Will trade for another after 30mins in. Writing it to save others from the hassle.
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- Michael
- 06-13-20
Insightful but incomplete
This had some interesting thoughts, but I felt like Blackmore never quite defined what a meme was in her usage, and her apology for not quite defining it was not quite satisfactory. She also didn't clearly show how memes are truly independent of genes, because I don't think they are, and a lot of what she ascribed to memes could just be complex neurology and biology dependent on genes. If memes are a new separate replicator, how are they different from, say, human bodies, which also replicate? Biologists would say that genes make human bodies in order to make more genes, but Blackmore didn't clearly demonstrate why memes aren't also the creation of genes for making more genes.
I appreciated her discussion at the end about Self. It's an important discussion, and I think she's on the right track. I'm not sure I love her conclusion about how to live in light of the absence of self, but she's probably logically consistent there. If there's no self and no suffering, there's no enjoying. Ergo, nihilism. Food for thought.
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