memes

Richard Dawkins introduces the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase 2013 in Cannes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn-ixX9edg&feature=share I'm not sure whether this was brilliant or toe-curlingly misguided. It gets very, um, interesting just after the 4:40 mark. I will say nothing...

OK, following on from some comments in another thread, I am getting interested in how beliefs work. I have written a little on this before, a couple of years ago. On that occasion I was involved in a discussion on the "meme theory", which seemed to fail to me in it's basic analogy of beliefs as...

...On Memes? What do you guys think? Possible? Unlikely? Misunderstood? I'm sort of at a confliction at the moment about Dennett's work with them. Dawkins doesn't seem to be exposing the same sophistication or depth.

Splitting from this thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69697 Are the concept of memes useful as a science? Although memes are considered, by their supporters, to be a "protoscience", what objective studies have been conducted to verify or falsify their...

I have dipped in and out of Memetics research quite a bit of late (reading from the sidelines). It is not my field and I still have a great deal to get to grips with but I was wondering about opinion here. To me it seems (at times) to be little more than a metaphor. A nice metaphor granted -...

Is there a meme for atheism? Is there a meme for believing in memes? How would one answer these questions scientifically? (non-circularly,non-question-begging) Is there a meme for believing in physicalism? (I think there just might be..... :D )

Most evolutionary psychologists, at least in my limited experience, are sympathetic to both sociobiology (inspired by Wilson) and memetics (inspired by Dawkins). But reading through Steven Pinker (_How the Mind Works_; _The Blank Slate_) and Robert Wright (_The Moral Animal_) the focus is...