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2014-08-31 |
Posted by:Chineth Gleger8876 |
#8 Need of a Crusade every few hundred years? Posted by: JohnQC I'd liken to having to ring up old Schultzie every 8-10 years. Nothing personal, just routine maintenance. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-31 11:54 |
#7 Memes can be a disease. Tribal ways tend to be Memes. Religions are Memes. The short form: A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.[3] Head to Wikipedia for the long form definition. Aaron Lynch described seven general patterns of meme transmission, or "thought contagion":[23] Quantity of parenthood: an idea that influences the number of children one has. Children respond particularly receptively to the ideas of their parents, and thus ideas that directly or indirectly encourage a higher birthrate will replicate themselves at a higher rate than those that discourage higher birthrates. Efficiency of parenthood: an idea that increases the proportion of children who will adopt ideas of their parents. Cultural separatism exemplifies one practice in which one can expect a higher rate of meme-replication—because the meme for separation creates a barrier from exposure to competing ideas. Proselytic: ideas generally passed to others beyond one's own children. Ideas that encourage the proselytism of a meme, as seen in many religious or political movements, can replicate memes horizontally through a given generation, spreading more rapidly than parent-to-child meme-transmissions do. Preservational: ideas that influence those that hold them to continue to hold them for a long time. Ideas that encourage longevity in their hosts, or leave their hosts particularly resistant to abandoning or replacing these ideas, enhance the preservability of memes and afford protection from the competition or proselytism of other memes. Adversative: ideas that influence those that hold them to attack or sabotage competing ideas and/or those that hold them. Adversative replication can give an advantage in meme transmission when the meme itself encourages aggression against other memes. Cognitive: ideas perceived as cogent by most in the population who encounter them. Cognitively transmitted memes depend heavily on a cluster of other ideas and cognitive traits already widely held in the population, and thus usually spread more passively than other forms of meme transmission. Memes spread in cognitive transmission do not count as self-replicating. Motivational: ideas that people adopt because they perceive some self-interest in adopting them. Strictly speaking, motivationally transmitted memes do not self-propagate, but this mode of transmission often occurs in association with memes self-replicated in the efficiency parental, proselytic and preservational modes. |
Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-31 11:08 |
#6 Need of a Crusade every few hundred years? |
Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-31 10:21 |
#5 Gottlieb and others have done extensive studies on genetics and behavior. Appears to be a certain level of acceptance within the scientific community. Elsewhere the discussion can range from simple doubt to anger and claims of racism. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-31 01:26 |
#4 genes. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-31 01:05 |
#3 Culture? |
Posted by: gorb 2014-08-31 00:48 |
#2 Much has already been written in the realm of geophysiology. There may be little new here with the exception of some updated mapping. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-31 00:44 |
#1 Doesn't this deserve the Master of the Obvious? |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-08-31 00:23 |