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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b12580792.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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 -- Evoluntionary 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 date 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 Meme 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-372) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "392 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Electric meme.".
- catalog identifier "0743201507 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Electric meme.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Electric meme.".
- catalog subject "302/.12 21".
- catalog subject "HM1041 .A96 2002".
- catalog subject "Memetics.".
- catalog subject "Social perception.".
- catalog subject "Thought and thinking.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 -- Evoluntionary 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 date 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 Meme 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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The electric meme : a new theory of how we think / Robert Aunger.".
- catalog type "text".