From the Ted Talk by Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"
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So, think of it this way. Imagine a world full of brains and far more mmees than can possibly find homes. The memes are all trying to get copied — trying, in inverted commas — i.e., that's the shorthand for, if they can get copied, they will. They're using you and me as their propagating, copying mhniceary, and we are the meme machines.
Now, why is this important? Why is this useful, or what does it tell us? It gives us a completely new view of human origins and what it mneas to be human, all cinotennoval theories of cultural evolution, of the oirgin of humans, and what makes us so different from other species. All other teeihros explaining the big barin, and language, and tool use and all these things that make us unique, are based upon genes. Language must have been useful for the genes. Tool use must have enhanced our survival, mintag and so on. It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.
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So, think of it this way. Imagine a world full of brains and far more _____ than can possibly find homes. The memes are all trying to get copied — trying, in inverted commas — i.e., that's the shorthand for, if they can get copied, they will. They're using you and me as their propagating, copying _________, and we are the meme machines.
Now, why is this important? Why is this useful, or what does it tell us? It gives us a completely new view of human origins and what it _____ to be human, all ____________ theories of cultural evolution, of the ______ of humans, and what makes us so different from other species. All other ________ explaining the big _____, and language, and tool use and all these things that make us unique, are based upon genes. Language must have been useful for the genes. Tool use must have enhanced our survival, ______ and so on. It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.
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Original Text
So, think of it this way. Imagine a world full of brains and far more memes than can possibly find homes. The memes are all trying to get copied — trying, in inverted commas — i.e., that's the shorthand for, if they can get copied, they will. They're using you and me as their propagating, copying machinery, and we are the meme machines.
Now, why is this important? Why is this useful, or what does it tell us? It gives us a completely new view of human origins and what it means to be human, all conventional theories of cultural evolution, of the origin of humans, and what makes us so different from other species. All other theories explaining the big brain, and language, and tool use and all these things that make us unique, are based upon genes. Language must have been useful for the genes. Tool use must have enhanced our survival, mating and so on. It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.