Difference between revisions of "Meme"

Revision as of 18:00, 28 May 2005

A meme is a thought that eats someone's head and, liking the taste, goes out to find more.

Revision as of 09:04, 3 April 2010 (view source) Conversion script (talk) m (link fix) ← Older edit		Revision as of 18:00, 28 May 2005 (view source) Arafelis (talk) (funcional definition, since the link was already there) Newer edit →
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1:		Line 1:
	A meme is a thought that eats someone's head and, liking the taste, goes out to find more.		A meme is a thought that eats someone's head and, liking the taste, goes out to find more.
−
−	:As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation." But your definition was so much cooler. -[[FrozenHermit]]