Brain Quote by Susan Blackmore

“The computers in which memes live are human brains.”

— Richard Dawkins

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a…

— Daniel Dennett

“Memes can replicate with impressive virulence while leaving swaths of collateral damage—patent medicines and psychic surgery, astrology and satanism, racist myths, superstitions, and (a…

— James Gleick

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry…

— Daniel Dennett

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

— M.I.A

A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that…

— Kalle Lasn

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than…

— Richard Dawkins

“If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of…

— Susan J. Blackmore

“But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the…

— Daniel C. Dennett

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…

— Susan Blackmore

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or…

— Tim Minchin

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for…

— Richard Dawkins