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" The electric meme : "
Robert Aunger.
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BL
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957354
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b711724
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Aunger, Robert.
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The electric meme : : a new theory of how we think /\ Robert Aunger.
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New York :: Free Press,, ©2002.
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392 pages ;; 25 cm
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0743201507
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: 9780743201506
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-372) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter One: In the middle of a muddle. Genes and germs -- Memes in the muddle -- Chapter Two: A special kind of inheritance. What is culture? -- Sociobiology -- Evolutionary psychology -- Punching the buttons on the jukebox of life -- Transmission happens -- Cultural selectionism -- Who's in charge? -- Rescuing memes -- Chapter Three: Adding rooms to Darwin's house. Expanding the living room -- A Darwinian universe? -- Replicators, interactors, and lineages -- The replication reaction -- Chapter Four: The replicator zoo. Spongy gray matter -- Survival of the prions -- Attack of the binaries -- A day in the life of a comp-virus -- Classifying viruses -- Evolution inside a computer -- From floppy to hard -- Learning to network -- Accounting for history -- Survival of the comp-viruses -- Convert thy neighbor -- Chapter Five: The data of information. Information is physical -- The nature of biological information -- The sticky replicator principle -- The same influence rule -- At detour's end -- Chapter Six: Stalking the wild meme. The quest begins -- Einstein's tea party -- A home for memes? -- Chapter Seven: Memes as a state of mind. Getting more nervous with time -- The plastic brain -- The millisecond meme -- The neuromeme defined -- Le Même chose -- Stationary memes -- Memes in motion -- Thinking in "meme-time" -- Reasons for replicating -- How memes qualify as replicators -- Selection on signals for memes -- The meaning of memes -- The first and last meme -- Nice parasites.
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Why do we have big brains anyway? -- Chapter Eight: Escape from planet brain. Mind the gap -- Signals as interactors -- Signals as phenotypes -- Signals as "Instigators" -- Ecological selection on signals -- The richness of the response -- Never mind the gap -- Rethinking communication -- Imitation, schmimitation -- Chapter Nine: The techno-tango. Artifacts as phenotypes -- Artifacts as interactors -- Artifacts as signal templates -- Communicative artifacts -- Artifacts as replicators -- The machining of culture -- A Darwinian duet -- Who's in control now? -- Rethinking culture -- Chapter Ten: Rethinking replication. Biology versus culture -- The big picture -- Chapter Eleven: The revolution of memes. The evolution of memes -- The revelation of memes.
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A cultural evolution scientist presents an outline of "meme," a distinct pattern of rapidly reproducing electrical charges in a brain node, citing their role in free will, human identity, consciousness, and society.
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Memetics.
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Social perception.
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Thought and thinking.
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08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology.
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77.62 social perception.
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Memetics.
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Social perception.
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Thought and thinking.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Memen.
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Sociale waarneming.
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| Dewey Classification
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302/.12
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HM1041.A96 2002
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08.36bcl
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77.62bcl
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