All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especia…

- Susan Blackmore

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

- Susan Blackmore

Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memet…

- Susan Blackmore

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

- Susan Blackmore

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

- Susan Blackmore

'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our …

- Susan Blackmore

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a me…

- Susan Blackmore

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

- Susan Blackmore

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed…

- Susan Blackmore