Tag Archives: memes
Parasites, failure, and useful ideas
1. Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes: If you work with people on ideas, you’ve probably seen it happen many times before: a bad idea is introduced, the team goes with it, and somewhere along the line, we realize it’s all about to go very badly. Ideas replicate (especially bad ones) with a mind of their own. Kill the bad ones, and keep the good ones. 2. From J.K. Rowlings’ talk on the benefits of failing, and the importance of imagination: “Given a time machine or …
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[EssentiaList] The Meme Edition
“A meme constitutes a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of culture or cultural evolution which spreads through diffusion propagating from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution.” Evolution of Technology “Like genes, memes are in competition with each other. While genes compete for representation in the genepool, memes compete for representation in the memepool — the huge collection of ideas that are currently circulating the world. …
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