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Susan Blackmore Quotes

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins’ idea and extending it Picture Quote #1

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes Picture Quote #1

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 meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic Picture Quote #1

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That’s not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator Picture Quote #1

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you’ve got all the advantages, if you’re attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body’s energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body’s weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense Picture Quote #1

For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed Picture Quote #1

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well Picture Quote #1

The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind! Picture Quote #1

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I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins’ idea and extending it (Susan Blackmore Quotes) Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes (Susan Blackmore Quotes) 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 meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic (Susan Blackmore Quotes) One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That’s not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator (Susan Blackmore Quotes) Take male strategies for success in the world. If you’ve got all the advantages, if you’re attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females (Susan Blackmore Quotes) 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 (Susan Blackmore Quotes) In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body’s energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body’s weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense (Susan Blackmore Quotes) For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed (Susan Blackmore Quotes) All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well (Susan Blackmore Quotes) The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind! (Susan Blackmore Quotes)