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See Also:  Journal of Memetics - Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission.Memetics - A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links. The Church of Virus - Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. alt.memetics bibliography - A comprehensive bibliography of Memetics and related topics. Memes.net - A collaborative notetaking site featuring memes, memetics, open source, linux and mindmap information. UK Memes Central - Includes texts by Dr Susan Blackmore and links to other articles online. Structure of Memes - The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical phrase, or even a single note? MemeSpace - A virtual community for bright people who love memetics. A Memetic Analysis of Policy Making - Presents a memetic framework for the analysis of policy making based on three concepts from evolutionary theory: interaction, replication, and lineage. Meme Central - FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, "Virus of the Mind".) Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics - Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography. Memetics and Synthetic Intelligence Discussion Corner - Discussions of the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer, with focus on creativity, memes, replicators, language, ideas, evolution, computers, viruses, knowledge, artificial intelligence, brain and the mind. Memes - Susan Blackmore, Robert Wright, and Richard Dawkins discuss memetics on U.S. National Public Radio. Persistence of Memes - Collection of philosophical essays on memetics and the evolution of culture. Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology - Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how. Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon - Dawkins had little to say about just where one might look in the brain to find memes and other memeticists have been content to follow him in that. Robert Aunger, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, believes that it is time memeticists end their agnosticism on this matter. To that purpose he has written an exposition of neuromemetics called The Electric Meme. Memecloud - Memes running around Alex Barnett's cloud - A collection of related memes. Memento - The home page of the open source Memento project - a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics. Mind viruses in Russia - Internet review in Russian publication on memes, mind viruses and mind epidemics. Memes - Susan Blackmore - A detailed site maintained by the psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore. The Electric Meme - Information about the book by Robert Aunger. Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' - The text that started off the science of memetics. Memes and Mind Viruses - Terms used in memetics. Culture Vultures - Critique of Susan Blackmore's "The Meme Machine". By Robert Aunger. As published in the September/October 1999 issue of The Sciences. Thought Contagion Science - Extensive works dating from 1968 to present on evolutionary epidemic theory of self-spreading beliefs.
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