عنوان

The electric meme :

(Number (ISBN

0743201507

(Number (ISBN

9780743201506

Number

b711724

Title Proper

The electric meme :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a new theory of how we think /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert Aunger.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Free Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

392 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-372) and index.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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.

0

0

Text of Note

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.

Title

Electric meme.

Memetics.

Social perception.

Thought and thinking.

08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology.

77.62 social perception.

Evolutionary psychology.

Memen.

Memetics.

Social perception.

Sociale waarneming.

Thought and thinking.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Aunger, Robert.

Date of Transaction

20201208022126.0

Electronic name

[Book]

Y