[Buddha-l] A New Crime

[Piya Tan]

Richard Dawkins as in "The Selflish Genes" and also Susan Blackburn,
"Consciousness: An Introduction" (see Index).

Piya

On 1/25/07, Michel Clasquin <clasqm at mweb.co.za> wrote:
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> On 25 Jan 2007, at 3:58 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
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> >
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> > What is a meme? I don't seem to have a dictionary that has this
> > word in it.
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> What us old farts use to call an idea, a notion, even a hypothesis.
> There's this school of thought that sees memes as analogous to genes
> in the biological sphere, as self-maintaining and self-replicating
> entities that try to survive by spawning new variants and pushing
> competing memes out of the way. Richard Dawkins has been quite
> prominent on this particular bandwagon.
>
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