Did anybody listen to that edition of Talk of the Nation on memetics?
The guests were:
GUESTS:
SUSAN BLACKMORE
Author, The Meme Machine (Oxford University Press,
1999)
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the West
of England, Bristol, England
ROBERT WRIGHT
Author, The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and
Everyday Life
(Vintage, l995)
RICHARD DAWKINS
Author, "The Selfish Gene" (Oxford University Press,
1976)
Professor of the Public Understanding of Science,
Oxford University
Author, Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton-Mifflin, 1998)
A meme is a idea or behavior one person can pass on to
another. Some scientists
claim that memes act like genes, with the fittest
surviving and interacting to produce
the peculiarities of human behavior. Can memetics help
us understand complex
aspects of human nature and culture, or is it, as some
have complained,
"cocktail-party science"? Join Ray Suarez and guests
for a look at the controversy
over memes.
http://programs.npr.org/npr2/PrgDisp.cfm?PrgDate=05/20/1999&PrgID=5