The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and memes can lead to important discoveries about the nature of the inner self. Confronting the deepest questions about our inner selves, with all our emotions, memories, beliefs, and decisions, Susan Blackmore makes a compelling case for the theory that the inner self is merely an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication.Any theory deserves to be given its best shot, and that is what Susan Blackmore has given the theory of the meme I am delighted to recommend her book. * Richard Dawkins *
Susan Blackmore is a speaker, freelance writer, and psychologist. She left the University of the West of England, Bristol, as a Reader in Psychology in 2000 to develop an undergraduate textbook on consciousness. She is the author of numerous scientific articles and book contributions, and she contributes to a number of periodicals and newspapers. She also appears frequently on radio and television in the United Kingdom and internationally. She's hosted a number of television shows, including a Channel 4 documentary on ape intelligence. She has been practicing Zen for the past two decades. In Search of the Light (1996), The Meme Machine (1999), Consciousness: An Introduction (2003), and Discussions about Consciousness (forthcoming in 2005) are some of her books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192862129 |
| ISBN 10 | 019286212X |
| Title | The Meme Machine |
| Author | Susan Blackmore |
| Series | Popular Science |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2000-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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