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  • noun A set of memes which interact to reinforce each other

Etymologies

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meme complex

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Examples

  • A memeplex is a set of memes which, while not necessarily being good survivors on their own, are good survivors in the presence of other members of the memeplex.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

  • I admit that it left me a bit confused: you dwell on trivial points of logic but I'm not sure how you want to apply it to determine which concepts require additions to your lexicon ( "memeplex").

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I admit that it left me a bit confused: you dwell on trivial points of logic but I'm not sure how you want to apply it to determine which concepts require additions to your lexicon ( "memeplex").

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I admit that it left me a bit confused: you dwell on trivial points of logic but I'm not sure how you want to apply it to determine which concepts require additions to your lexicon ( "memeplex").

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • It also employs the imagery of a matrix or lattice to illustrate the memeplex being made up of individual, discrete consciousnesses experiencing a collective and individual transformation through the propagation.

    Meme Sculpture by Mark Leichliter 2008

  • On another level this phenomenon - both the practice and the horrified reactions - offers a different aspect of the fearsome internet memeplex.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Gothic 2009

  • How do we, as free, democratic and tolerant societies, deal with the aggressive encroachments of this virulent memeplex?

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’ 2006

  • In fact, evolution is an explicit module of this memeplex; whereas holy texts were forever frozen in their revealed forms, constitutions could be amended or modified by elected representatives responding to popular consensus in the face of changing circumstances, like species evolve in response to natural selection acting via changing environments.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’ 2006

  • In a way, the principle of ecclesiastical or commissar vote was generalized to encompass the entire citizenry just as, in prior times, the Gutenberg printing press wrested the holy texts away from their elite cadres and made them available for perusal and judgment to all literate citizens, and a new memeplex has thus evolved; the constitutional democracy memeplex

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’ 2006

  • Maaari naming gawin ang isang pluralist diskarte sa tradisyonal na kabanalan. hanapin ko komportable sa Taoism, Discordia , isang masaganang interpretasyon ng Jesus na nagbubukod Paul whatta uto-uto, isang maliit na Shinto, isang umpog ng Islam, Solomon ay cool, ang isang fav ang Bohdidharma, atbp, atbp May isang maliit na piraso ng katotohanan sa bawat relihiyon memeplex, ngunit ito ay hindi lubos Agnostism.

    ideonexus.com »2006» Enero 2006

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