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Okay, but exactly `who' would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 12, 2010 /

Found : Okay, but exactly `who’ would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators? At the end of the day who would escape the tyranny of the replicators? To escape the tyranny of memes we should surely have to lose the ability to imitate and instruct and culturally transmit information to one another – and have…

The medieval church, heresy and memes

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 6, 2010 /

Found : The medieval church, heresy and memes I find it a little ironic that the conceptualization of ideas as infectious diseases dates back far beyond The Selfish Gene. In fact, one of the first notable observations of this ideology is from the medieval Catholic Church, circa 12th century. Heresy was considered to be an…