memetic

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Now, if you simply reduce your ignorance to talking about cultural transmission of information and that of memetic (not to be confused with mimetics, though cognitively their interplay is interesting) then you may be making more sense.

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  • This is why, in "The Meme Machine," I called it memetic drive. —  Susan Blackmore on memes and "temes"
  • Subsequently the evolutionary algorithm, memetic algorithm, ant colony optimization algorithm, tabu search, self organizing map-based iterative approaches and the typical chain growth computing approaches are reviewed. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It's a memetic timebomb that goes off again and again and again. —  MentalPolyphonics
  • I asked Wayne Porter, Senior Director of Special Research (a new division I can't comment on) for his opinions given his background studying memetic engineering. —  Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
  • This subversion is the crux of the talk, and it is unfortunate that this could not have been a two part talk where everything but subversion was covered in Part I, and the subversion question (which is really a major revision or extension of the memetic hypothesis, I think) in Part II. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
 

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