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 Thought Contagion - Aaron Lynch
Newest Review: ... any belief that encourages people to have more children has an inherent advantage over one that encourages people to have ... more  ... less. One obvious case is the belief "contraception is wrong". This leads to larger average family size and more potential hosts for the "contraception is wrong" meme. A belief in celibacy has the opposite effect and hence spreads less well via this mechanism. It's important at this point to stress that memetics does not seek to judge whether an idea is "right" or "wrong", simply to study how ideas spread and why some spread more easily than others. Like genetics, memetics ...more |
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Thought Contagion - Aaron Lynch: The selfish meme (519 words)
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The term "meme" was first coined by Richard Dawkins in his classic book "The Selfish Gene". It refers to a self-propagating idea - a belief that by its very nature encourages its own adoption. Memetics is thus the study of such beliefs and the way in which they propagate; it is about "how ideas acquire people". Memetics proposes that beliefs are themselves subject to Darwinian natural selection and evolution in their fight for resources (believers). Some memes have an evolutionary advantage and are inherently more likely to spread and take hold than others. As a simple example, parents install many of their beliefs in to their ... Read the complete review
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