See also:
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.
The Electric Meme
Information about the book by Robert Aunger.
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.
Mind viruses in Russia
Internet review in Russian publication on memes, mind viruses and mind epidemics.
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)
Memesis symposium
Symposium on the Net. (September 2, 1996)
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