tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24509137.post116637104862055010..comments2024-03-17T10:31:54.657-04:00Comments on destination unknown: meme with a differencemartha brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17897250180581262611noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24509137.post-44486495959715935822007-01-02T11:32:00.000-05:002007-01-02T11:32:00.000-05:00I love the idea that Colette has about bonuses. W...I love the idea that Colette has about bonuses. Wouldn't it be a wonderful change. Then the poorer could enjoy many of the little "luxuries" like enough gasoline for a ride in the country, or a new box of crayolas for the kids, DMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24509137.post-1166893143857671552006-12-23T11:59:00.000-05:002006-12-23T11:59:00.000-05:00Welcome to the blog world! This is so great! One...Welcome to the blog world! This is so great! One more person to link to!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24509137.post-1166821773907173182006-12-22T16:09:00.000-05:002006-12-22T16:09:00.000-05:00Sign me up! I have just the idea and I will start...Sign me up! I have just the idea and I will start once I get back from out west.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24509137.post-1166664771420138382006-12-20T20:32:00.000-05:002006-12-20T20:32:00.000-05:00The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, not /mɛm/ or /mimi/,...The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, not /mɛm/ or /mimi/, to rhyme with "theme"), coined in 1976 by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.<BR/><BR/>The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, achieving a degree of penetration into popular culture rare for a scientific theory.<BR/><BR/>Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection — in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution — on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate — for better or for worse — through modification.<BR/><BR/>Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.martha brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897250180581262611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24509137.post-1166490775186865332006-12-18T20:12:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:12:00.000-05:00What is a meme?What is a meme?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com