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Well, having gotten well and truely sidetracked from writing my thesis, I've ended up reading about memes.
Meme is a ply on gene, and basically, a meme is a thought gene. So, for instance, the idea of Coca Cola being cool is a meme. Once you express it to someone else, it enters their meme pool, and kinda infects them like a virus ... replicating and finding ways to pass itself on to otehr people. Something like that anyway.
Some links of whatever value:
The Journal of Memetics - dense, academic-type reading.
Meme Central - ugly, and a little bit of content.
I got onto memes from evolutionary psychology, via evolutionary theory and evolutionary biology, by thinking about the idea of a market place of ideas - and what I do and don't like about that idea.
Anyway, heres an odd link for you: Oxford University Museum of Natural History: TARDIS
Meme is a ply on gene, and basically, a meme is a thought gene. So, for instance, the idea of Coca Cola being cool is a meme. Once you express it to someone else, it enters their meme pool, and kinda infects them like a virus ... replicating and finding ways to pass itself on to otehr people. Something like that anyway.
Some links of whatever value:
The Journal of Memetics - dense, academic-type reading.
Meme Central - ugly, and a little bit of content.
I got onto memes from evolutionary psychology, via evolutionary theory and evolutionary biology, by thinking about the idea of a market place of ideas - and what I do and don't like about that idea.
Anyway, heres an odd link for you: Oxford University Museum of Natural History: TARDIS
mellow