Memes Quotes - Page 3

• [Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Writing, Ideas, Kind

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

  M.I.A.

  Creativity, Creative, Needs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

  Susan Blackmore

  Technology, Thinking, Benefits

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• Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Culture, Ugly

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• We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, Machines

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

  Daniel Dennett

  Competition, Mind, Capacity

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?

  Susan Blackmore

  Home, Brain, World

  Susan Blackmore (2000). “The Meme Machine”, p.84, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Brain, Mind

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.213, Oxford University Press

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• The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

  Susan Blackmore

  Sex, Taken, Modern

  Susan Blackmore (2000). “The Meme Machine”, p.141, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Dna, Essentials, Atoms

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to enrich: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought of including them in your worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.140, Shambhala Publications

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• Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Talking, Oxytocin, Giving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, Machines

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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• Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre,
  mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction.
  English Translation:
  To love is not to look at each other,
  But to look together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love Is, Together, Looks

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• I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

  Barack Obama

  Successful, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baseball, Giving Up, Mean

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• Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Ideas, Artifacts

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin

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