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| | Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Memes propagate by imitation, direct or indirect, of one individual by another, and thus depend on brains sufficiently powerful to assess the key aspects of the imitated behavior (what to copy and why) as well as its potential benefits. | | | Eventually, many see the potential to fabricate or modify meme systems consciously to specific ends, based on conscious plans and logical foresight (all aided by interacting memeplexes which arguably constitute thought), such that the memesphere becomes a cluttered canvas of interconnected variables which everyone influences. | | | However, the idea that the idea that the concept of memes is itself a meme is not yet particularly common as a meme. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_memes
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| | Memetics Symposium-Abstracts |
| | The concept of a "meme", linked as it is to behavioral patterns replicated by imitation, although of some use in the study of human societies (fashions and technological innovations do spread by imitation), is not adequate for the study of linguistic phenomena, where patterns are replicated by obligatory repetition (i.e. | | | The concept of the meme is not only based on the self-reflexivity of the idea pattern of language, which we commonly call "thinking", but also attempts to formulate this most characteristic aspect most generally and most abstractly. | | | This analysis of the ontological status of memes is based on general philosophical arguments which are then applied to other apparently "emergent" structures as used in theories of evolution and self-organisation. |
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Conf/MemeticsAbs.html
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| | Memes by Susan Blackmore |
| | Memes are copied by the messy and complicated activities of human brains and human behaviours. | | | Innate abilities and emotions are not memes, nor are those learned by classical or operant conditioning which almost all animals have. |
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http://www.ukpoliticsmisc.org.uk/usenet_evidence/memes.htm
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| | World Peace |
| | To put it another way, the evolving ecology of memes produced the viral memes with a very effective method of defence, which spurred others to develop a method of attack capable of defeating it. | | | If this method were unchecked, viral memes would have already occupied every available brain and reached a standstill, spreading only by biological means as neither would surrender any ground. | | | It is the behaviour that says "this meme will fight with that meme by means other than natural selection". |
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http://www.seldo.com/articles/worldpeace.php
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| | Forty Media - Phoenix, Arizona Web Design - Viral marketing |
| | Viral marketing is a form of promotion in which a person who enjoys the object or service being promoted refers his or her friends, family, and even strangers to it. | | | A weblog (or “blog”) is typically a personal website on which an individual posts thoughts, ideas, experiences, and—most importantly from a viral marketing perspective—links to interesting websites. | | | We’ve seen the evolution over the years, and we offer an authoritative understanding of the culture, community, and psychology that drives it. |
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http://www.fortymedia.com/viral-marketing.fhtml
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| | The Redefinition of Memes: Ascribing Meaning to an Empty Cliché |
| | Memes would be studied for their catalytic roles and managers would be taught sensitivity to the conditions that aid and hinder the evolution of such catalysts. | | | Word choice and metaphor use allow for the emergence of new memes, the replacement of memes, and the death of memes via a concept that Douglas Hofstadter (1995) has labeled "conceptual slippage." In essence, the use of a metaphor or analogy evokes a glom of meanings. | | | If, on the other hand, memes are redefined such that the evolutionary selection process is no longer an aspect of the ontology of memes but rather of the environmental niche (cf. |
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http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/2004/vol8/lissack_mr.html
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| | Memes and Schemes |
| | Scheme theory is a way of looking at memes from a philosophical position, rather than a scientific position. | | | It is an important emotional meme for John and Marsha. | | | From a memetics point of view a scheme is a set of memes shared in common, in different brains. |
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http://members.cox.net/xocxoc/philosophy/scheme2.htm
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| | Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource |
| | Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life. | | | As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives. | | | Neither that understanding nor the new understanding of our minds that memetics will give us should affect the philosophical question of free will. |
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http://www.memecentral.com
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| | Barbelith Underground > Temple > House of Leaves is a viral meme |
| | I thought that was the whole point behind stuff like the psychological reactions to the people connected with the text (the more deeply involved they became, the more extreme the reaction), hence the whole cult of contributors that developed around Zampano being utterly effected by their shared experience. | | | Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans, cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. | | | A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. |
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http://www.barbelith.com/topic.php?id=2079
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| | Viral Marketing on the Web |
| | A viral cure for what ails you-check it out here. | | | Indeed, memes survive by being basic, almost primal paens to our instincts. | | | The most contageous memes cut straight to the emotional quik: desires like money, sex, food, danger. |
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http://viral-power.blogspot.com
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| | Synthesis |
| | Language, and memes in general, though created by the infant, are shaped by imitation, by the conditioning of parents, and by the conditioning of nature. | | | The framework I have attempted to elucidate here, that ideas are memes, biological entities which behave exactly like genes, permits a fresh analysis of language and philosophy in which words and propositions are tied into a 'central dogma'. | | | As humans, most of our fundamental memes are laid down by the Infant Genius, a child less than 3 years old, in wordless images before Language is acquired. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~robert-scantlebury/synthesis.html
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| | Viral marketing |
| | This is a practical, informal, informative, easy-read guide to explain what viral marketing is, how to do it and how to measure success. | | | They can even be actions, like drenching a victorious coach with a barrelful of Gatorade. | | | Along the way he reveals the fifty reasons people buy things, the ten biggest marketing myths, ways to make your message instill hope, surprise, and urgency, and many more wise, surprising notions that readers can readily translate into profits. |
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http://www.saunalahti.fi/jawap/link/viral.html
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| | Viral Memes |
| | For every viral meme or scheme, we should identify the emotional response. | | | A statement that evokes enough emotion to overcome skepticism. | | | We can then ask ourselves, "Why does this cause me to feel this way?", or "Is this meme really true or just emotionally deceiving?" |
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http://members.cox.net/xocxoc/philosophy/viralmemes.htm
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| | Soul In Code: Memes Archives |
| | Memes: interactive cartography, six degrees of separation, social network theory | | | Most people know Gladwell from reading "The Tipping Point", a bestseller about what how processes in human world suddenly become huge in the "viral" sense we read about and see so much these daze. | | | This does not mean TV is out of the question, but at such a high cost for so little time, the organization should really plan on how to make the most effective use of "TV time". |
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http://www.soulincode.com/archives/cat_memes.html
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| | 2.10: Meme, Counter-meme |
| | And it's time for net.dwellers to make a conscious effort to control the kinds of memes they create or circulate. | | | A "meme," of course, is an idea that functions in a mind the same way a gene or virus functions in the body. | | | And an infectious idea (call it a "viral meme") may leap from mind to mind, much as viruses leap from body to body. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html
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| | Ross Mayfield's Weblog: socialsoftware |
| | The grassroots energy of the newest media will undoubtedly triumph in form, but there is a danger that the function doesn't inherit support for the public interest. | | | I almost see a new system of checks and balances between personalization (corporate interest, information-centric), customization (personal interest, information-centric) and socialization (social interest, relationship-centric) as memes lobby for attention. | | | RSS is a friend of the user, our viral growth and addictiveness is a proof point. |
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/socialsoftware/index.html
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| | Viral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An object, even a non-material object, is considered to be viral when it has the ability to spread copies of itself or change other similar objects to become more like itself when those objects are simply exposed to the viral object. | | | Viral phenomena are objects or patterns able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. | | | This has become a common way to describe how thoughts, information and trends move into and through a human population. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral
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| | viral hepatitis - definition of viral hepatitis by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | hepatitis C - a viral hepatitis clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but caused by a single-stranded RNA virus; usually transmitted by parenteral means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure to blood or blood products) | | | hepatitis B, serum hepatitis - an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/viral+hepatitis
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| | urticator.net - Bundling and Evangelism |
| | One of the things about memes is that they are often found bundled together with other memes. | | | Brodie, in Virus of the Mind, aptly describes memes like S | | | Here's what to me is the canonical example, from On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures. |
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http://www.urticator.net/essay/0/66.html
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| | Cerulean Sanctum: A Plague of Viral Green Memes |
| | The latest viral meme to hit some Christian Web sites (those that tend to lean more left than right) takes the form of this link to My Footprint. | | | So we have some familiarity with the green movement and the figures it uses to whip up hysteria. | | | Anyone who follows this blog knows that my wife and I are using sustainable permaculture methods to run our small, organic farm. |
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http://www.dedelen.com/2005/07/plague-of-viral-green-memes.html
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| | ipedia.com: Zero Wing Article |
| | It is also somewhat famous for the game music by Tatsuya Uemura which also appears in several remixed forms. | | | It seems to be notable only for giving rise to these memes, as the game is merely a standard sideways scrolling shooter. | | | Zero Wing is a 1980s Japanese video game developed by Toaplan whose opening cut scene for Sega Megadrive was translated into Engrish. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/zero_wing.html
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| | extropians: By Author |
| | Re: AI's at risk from viral memes ?? | | | Cryonics Over Dead Geeks' Bodies (Fri Jul 20 2001 - 09:35:29 MDT) |
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http://lists.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians.3Q01/author.html
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