Showing posts with label memes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memes. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Are your beliefs painting you into a corner?

Memetics is a controversial theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek "something imitated", "to imitate", "mime").