Originally posted by grey fox
I hate 4/chan it's a site that breed paedophiles and crazies.
well yeah. /co/ still cool though. I use to go to /a/ as well. Sort of been going less and less since this saigar crap started.
anyway here are some /co/ memes
http://img163.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blackboltexilesrr1.jpg
http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1161445156862az2.jpg
http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1168468526446re7.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1168557353441js6.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1161303440993jb1hp3.jpg
http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1158453550355ti3.png
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1169078291328vj9.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1170371328551mj0.jpg
http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1170380898182wl1.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1170391520575tu8.jpg
http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1170483083123tq8.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1166918923381ki9.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1171849057485vb3.png
http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1171843742867kl7.jpg
Originally posted by Mindship
Mostly social psychology. And it is not an academically prevalent idea in undergrad psych, which is mostly info-dumping involving the been-around-forever basics (eg, Freud, Skinner).
hahaha, ya, thats almost exactly what my social psych prof said 🙂
However, I am also involved in a cognitive neuropsych lab, and even there it is generally treated as philosophy or pseudoscience. That may just be the lack of real conclusive experimental results for memetics though.
It might just be me or my school too. Apparently my girlfriend's first year text had a mention of them in it. Mine didn't 🙁.
Originally posted by Mindship
It's no coincidence that 'meme' rhymes somewhat with 'gene'. Just as a gene is a basic unit of biological heredity passed on from body to body via replication, a meme is a basic unit of cultural heredity (an idea, theme, word, etc) passed on from mind to mind through 'replication' (ie, imitation).
Ya, Dawkins (a major evolutionary biologist) coined the term in the 70's in a book called "the selfish gene".
I generally lean more to your type of definition for meme, simply because it is much more robust. Blackmore's definition is basically "A unit of replication that is passed through imitation", which is exactly what you said 🙂. I think that one works better then the interpretations that let memes be any form of mental construct or schemata.
Hey, have I plugged this book yet:
http://www.amazon.com/Meme-Machine-Susan-Blackmore/dp/019286212X
*you want to read this book*
lol
