If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
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
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
Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
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
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…
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. - Susan Blackmore
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
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
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…
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
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
'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
'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 …
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. - Susan Blackmore
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.
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
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…
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