Tim Tyler: Memetic takeover

The rise of the new replicators.

Transcript: http://alife.co.uk/essays/memetic_takeover/

Please buy my book on Memetics: http://memetics.timtyler.org/

"Memetics: Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution."

Amazon.com link: http://amazon.com/dp/1461035260/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• memes
• memetic
• genetic
• takeover

[docbreaknik]

it would be good to sample this dialogue tim?

[tmtyler]

@docbreaknik It is in the public domain - but perhaps check with your YouTube T&Cs.

[docbreaknik]

@tmtyler . whats 'YouTube T&Cs' tim?

[tmtyler]

@docbreaknik The YouTube "Terms of Use" and "Community Guidelines".

[TheLostBees]

You quite an interesting character, Mr. Tyler :P...what is your IQ?

[tmtyler]

@TheLostBees Heh: my last two IQ tests were long ago - but I got 148 and 156.

[NeosimianSapiens]

We know that genes change via copy error. We also know memes currently change via copy error OR human processing. But copy error is an effective contribution only in the presence of great fecundity, since most errors are fatal. Can memes transcend the need for a gene-based intelligence to alter them in non-fatal ways?

Our brains are the primordial soup in which the memes thrived. Will that soup create an alternative substrate for the memes? Nanobots? Giant networks? Intriguing notions.

[AlgeKalipso]

Thanks. But... enjoy what?! 

[docbreaknik]

yar!

[docbreaknik]

@tmtyler but if your the fella who spoke it, surely they can swing?

[docbreaknik]

[mdma]