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The meme machine

Susan J. Blackmore

1999264 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Oxford University Press · 264 pages · ENGISBN 9780965881784
  • 1999Oxford University Press · 264 pages · ENGISBN 9780192862129
  • 1999Oxford University Press · 264 pagesISBN 9780198503651
  • 2011Alfa Yayincilik · 346 pagesISBN 9786051063737

After Richard Dawkins' *The Selfish Gene*, Susan Blackmore drive us deeply into the theory of the meme, social and cultural "replicators", trying to explain the human unique ability to imitate. Altruism, ideas, human behaviours, sex, poetry, music... seems to be simply the result of such as memetic selection... > Even our inner conscious self and our sense of free will are illlusion created by the memes for the sake of their own replication.

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