See also:
- Journal of Memetics
- Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission.
- Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics - Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography.
- Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' - The text that started off the science of memetics.
- The Church of Virus - Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion.
- Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology - Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how.
- How can we die if we are not alive? - Explanation of memetics by analogy of computers.
- Meme Central - FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, "Virus of the Mind".)
- Memento - The home page of the open source Memento project - a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics.
- Memes - Susan Blackmore - A detailed site maintained by the psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore.
- Memetics - A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links.
- Memetics - A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria.
- Memetics and Synthetic Intelligence Discussion Corner - Discussions of the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer, with focus on creativity, memes, replicators, language, ideas, evolution, computers, viruses, knowledge, artificial intelligence, brain and the mind.
- Neobiology & Ethetics - The neobiological model indicates that all living systems, genetic and memetic belong to the realm of biology. Ethetics is the field which encompasses all self-perpetuating algorithmic structures, including genetics and memetics.
- Persistence of Memes - Collection of philosophical essays on memetics and the evolution of culture.
- Structure of Memes - The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical phrase, or even a single note?
- UK Memes Central - Includes texts by Dr Susan Blackmore and links to other articles online.
- Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon - Essay/review of The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. (October, 2002)
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