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Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"

http://... Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

Channel: Tech
Uploaded: June 4, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 00:21:01
Rating: 4.51
Views: 20866

Tags: design memes evolution ted Blackmore tedtalks brain technology culture Susan

Video Comments:

greatsea (November 29, 2008 at 6:35 am)

If a meme can be dangerous what is it dangerous to?

adolthitler (November 21, 2008 at 4:01 am)

You are right Yahonatan you are not fertile ground for new memes.

mtheoryrules (November 20, 2008 at 12:49 pm)

"Any information! Anything you were taught, learned, saw or heard. It came from everywhere."This is inaccurate, information that replicates with variance must first overcome the second law of thermodynamics.Essentially information is everywhere, but ordered information that replicates must struggle to maintain existence so variances that promote survival win.I enjoyed this teds, I feared I was one of few people that contemplates about such things.

mtheoryrules (November 20, 2008 at 12:46 pm)

When expressed in the context of memes then the clash between religion and science becomes one of an epic struggle between two species competing for the same resources.It would be like calling ants evil because they destroy they compete with termites.Also memes represents organized replicating information, not ideas.To simply call them ideas is missing the profoundness and implications of the concept.

EvilUmpire (November 19, 2008 at 11:57 pm)

Much of this sounds like a rehash of one of Dan Dennett's TED talks, but delivered by a much less engaging presenter.

MaryLovesJesus (November 18, 2008 at 2:07 am)

LOL Now she has Nazis defending her, no less than AdoltHitler! No credentials, not affiliated with any college, bans books, prints fake data, lawsuits for slander, green hair, angry, full of hate, lectures about minutia and the irrelevant; yet lets be fair. Nazis like her. She's even got AdoltHitler coming to her defense. I have to laugh out loud. OK, your right. Who am I to argue with Nazis who name themselves after Hitler. And for her next lecture: "Memes, temes, and Nazi dreams."

adolthitler (November 17, 2008 at 11:56 pm)

Any information! Anything you were taught, learned, saw or heard. It came from everywhere. Its a very simple concept.

adolthitler (November 17, 2008 at 11:55 pm)

Do you not understand what a meme is?Why do you scoff the study of memes?Why is it a pseudoscience?"Something weirded me out about that lady." wow that shoots her ideas down.

adolthitler (November 17, 2008 at 11:52 pm)

Memes are not pure rubbish. Memes, ideas that replicate themselves. Christianity is a meme, an evil insipid meme that kills all other memes.

blackleejack (November 14, 2008 at 2:38 am)

Councillor Hamann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.