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!!!Meme
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-(pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by [Dawkins|DawkinsRichard
], by analogy with "gene".)
+(pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by [Richard
Dawkins|PersonDawkinsRichard
], by analogy with "gene".)
-!
"The new soup is the soup of the human culture. We need a name fro
this new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of cultural transmission, or unit of [imitation]. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want
a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word me^me. It should be pronounce to rhyme with 'cream' " (the selfish gene, Richard Dawkins, 1976)
+__Origin: __''
"The new soup is the soup of the human culture. We need a name for
this new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of cultural transmission, or unit of [imitation]. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I wanted
a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word me^me. It should be pronounce to rhyme with 'cream' " (the selfish gene, [
Richard Dawkins|PersonDawkinsRichard]
, 1976)''
-Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. ([Wheelis|WheelisMark
], quoted in [Hofstadter|HofstadterDouglas
].)
+Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. ([Mark
Wheelis|PersonWheelisMark
], quoted in [Hofstadter|PersonHofstadterDouglas
].)
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See also: [meme-complex].
